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AUGUST TIME FOR HIGH-COUNTRY ADVENTURES FROM THE PUBLISHER

The best way to beat the summer heat of August is to spend lots of time on Big Blue and other lakes and rivers of the Tahoe Sierra. August is also prime wildflower season in the region’s higher elevations.

You’ll have to do a little hiking to reach some great wildflower spots, but it’s worth the trek.

One of the most popular in the region is the Galena Falls hike on Mount Rose, a 5-mile pretty easy hike bursting with wildflowers with Galena Creek falls at the end, as Tim Hauserman recently visited for a story in this edition. Another late-summer wildflower hike that Tim recommends is Meiss Meadows from Carson Pass. You can find details on that hike at TheTahoeWeekly.com.

Mark McLaughlin recently explored the picturesque high-country hike at Echo Lakes. You can hike the 4.9-mile loop trail or take the water taxi across Lower Echo Lake on the way back for a unique Tahoe experience.

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… the mighty Sierra, miles in height, and so gloriously colored and so radiant, it seemed not clothed with light but wholly composed of it, like the wall of some celestial city... Then it seemed to me that the Sierra should be called, not the Nevada or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light.

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• Part of Truckee River Trail to close for repairs

Late-summer wildflowers are in bloom throughout the region on the higher-elevation trails throughout the Tahoe Sierra. Tim Hauserman recently visited Galena Falls bursting with late-season wildflowers for a feature in this edition. And, wildflowers at Paradise Lake are on the cover. This image was photographed during a recent backpacking trip on July 15.

Paradise Lake is a 14.9-mile roundtrip hike in the Tahoe National Forest somewhat behind Castle Peak, north of Boreal Mountain. Photography

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Music lovers enjoy the tunes of Big Bluegrass at Sugar Pine Point State Park on Lake Tahoe’s West Shore. | Katherine E. Hill

ATTRACTIONS Cave Rock

North Lake Tahoe Demonstration Garden

East Shore

Drive through one of the area’s natural wonders at Cave Rock, the neck of an old volcano. The area is named for the small caves above Highway 50 that were cut by waves when Lake Tahoe was 200 feet higher during the ice ages.

Eagle Rock

Summer | Free (775) 586-1610, ext. 25 | demogarden.org Demonstrations of lake-friendly landscaping using native and adaptive plants, water conservation, soil stabilization techniques, defensible space from wildfires & BMPs. Self-guided tours & clinics. TART

West Shore

Eagle Rock, one of the lake’s famous natural sites, is a volcanic plug beside Highway 89 on the West Shore. Trail to top is on the south side. TART

Explore Tahoe

North Tahoe Arts Center

Tahoe Art League Gallery South Lake Tahoe

(530) 542-2908 | cityofslt.us Urban Trailhead at base of Heavenly Gondola with local exhibits and programs. BlueGo

(530) 544-2313 | talart.org Featuring local artists and workshops. Second location at Ski Run Center. BlueGo

Emerald Bay

Tahoe City

(530) 541-3030 | parks.ca.gov Lake Tahoe’s only island is located in Emerald Bay & is home to an old tea house. Boat access only. (Closed Feb. 1-June 15 for nesting birds.)

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Heavenly

(775) 586-7000 | skiheavenly.com Enjoy a 2.4-mile ride on the gondola to the top with panoramic views of Lake Tahoe and the Carson Valley. Ticket required. BlueGo

Tahoe City Field Station

West Shore

Parking fee | parks.ca.gov (530) 525-7232 Park | (530) 583-9911 Tours Sugar Pine Point State Park is home to the historic Ehrman Mansion (summer tours), see boathouses with historic boats and General Phipps Cabin built in the late 1800s. TART

High Camp

Olympic Valley

(800) 403-0206 | squawalpine.com Aerial tram rides with views of Lake Tahoe, Olympic Heritage Museum, events and more.

Ticket required. TART

Kings Beach

North Shore

northtahoebusiness.org Kings Beach is a popular spot for dining and shopping with the North Shore’s largest sandy beach located in the heart of town.

Free parking at North Tahoe Beach, Brook Street, Minnow and the Christmas Tree lot on Hwy. 28. TART

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Watson Cabin

(530) 583-1762 | northtahoemuseums.org Watson Cabin, built by Robert Watson and his son in 1909, is the oldest building in Tahoe City and on the National Register of Historic Places. (summer tours). TART

MUSEUMS Donner Memorial Visitor Center

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KidZone Children’s Museum

Truckee

Tues.-Sun. | Locals’ first Tues. half price (530) 587-5437 | kidzonemuseum.org For kids up to age 7 with interactive exhibits, science & art classes, the BabyZone for newborns to 18 months & the Jungle Gym for toddlers and older. TART South Lake Tahoe

Tahoe Science Center

Incline Village

Tues.-Fri. & by appt. | Free (775) 881-7566 | tahoesciencecenter.org University of California, Davis, science education center at Sierra Nevada College. Exhibits include a virtual research boat, biology lab, 3D movies and docent-led tours. Ages 8+. TART

Truckee Railroad Museum

Truckee

Sat.-Sun. & holidays truckeedonnerrailroadsociety.com Located in a caboose next to the Truckee Depot. Exhibits include the train’s role in logging, fighting snow on the railway, the role of Chinese emigrants and a children’s area. TART

VISITORS’ CENTERS Kings Beach State Rec. Area (Thurs.-Mon., summer)

Incline Village 969 Tahoe Blvd.

(800) 468-2463

South Lake Tahoe 3066 Lake Tahoe Blvd.

(530) 541-5255

Stateline 169 Hwy. 50 (775) 588-4591

Tahoe City 100 North Lake Blvd.

(530) 581-6900

Truckee 10065 Donner Pass Rd. (Depot) (530) 587-8808

U.S. Forest Service | Incline Village 855 Alder Ave., (775) 831-0914 (Wed.-Fri.)

(530) 541-5458 | laketahoemuseum.org Features Washoe artifacts and exhibits on early industry, settlers and archival films of Tahoe.

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U.S. Forest Service | South Lake Tahoe

Old Jail Museum

3080 N. Lake Blvd.

(530) 583-3593 (Fridays)

Truckee

(530) 582-0893 | truckeehistory.org One of a few surviving 19th Century jailhouses of its kind in the West used from 1875 until May 1964 (summer tours). TART

TROA.NET

Tahoe City

(530) 583-9283 | tahoemaritimemuseum.org Features guided tours, exhibits and hands-on activities for kids on Tahoe’s maritime history.

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35 College Dr. (530) 543-2600

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Kings Beach Soda Springs

(530) 583-1762 | northtahoemuseums.org Featuring historic photos, the Steinbach Indian Basket Museum and local historical memorabilia. TART

East Shore

Olympic Valley

Truckee

(530) 543-2674 | fs.usda.gov Features Stream Profile Chamber to view slice of Taylor Creek, nature trails & more. BlueGo

Lake Tahoe Museum

FLOW AT FARAD

Tahoe City

Gatekeeper’s Museum

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Parking fee (530) 541-3030 | (530) 525-9529 ADA parks.ca.gov or vikingsholm.com Tour the grounds of Vikingsholm Castle (summer tours), see Eagle Falls and Fannette Island (the Lake’s only island), home to an old Tea House. TART/BlueGo

Taylor Creek Visitor Center South Lake Tahoe

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donnersummithistoricalsociety.org Museum at the corner of Old Highway 40 & Soda Springs Road. Take the 20-mile interpretive driving tour along Old 40. Maps online or at museum. TART

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(530) 541-5227 | tahoeheritage.org Once known as the “Grandest Resort in the World” as the summer retreat for three San Francisco elite families with the Baldwin Estate, Pope Estate & Valhalla. Grounds open yearround. BlueGo

CAPACITY: C 226,500

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(800) 403-0206 | squawalpine.com Squaw Valley, host of the VIII Winter Olympic Games in 1960, celebrates its Olympic History with the Tower of Nations with its Olympic Flame and the symbolic Tower of the Valley at the entrance to the valley. The Olympic Museum at High Camp features historic memorabilia and photographs. Tram ticket required. TART

Donner Summit Historical Society

South Lake Tahoe

May-October | thunderbirdtahoe.org Thunderbird Lodge is the former Whittell estate. This magnificent lakefront home features the Lighthouse Room, Old Lodge, 600’ underground tunnel (with a former lion cage) and Boat House, home to the “Thunderbird,” a 1939 wooden boat. Ages 6+ only. No on-site parking.

Tours by reservation only.

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truckeehistory.org | truckee.com The historic town of Truckee was settled in 1863, and grew quickly as a stagecoach stop and route for the Central Pacific Railroad. During these early days, many of Truckee’s historical homes and buildings were built including The Truckee Hotel (1868) and the Capitol Building (1868). Stop by the Depot for a walking tour of historic downtown. Paid parking downtown with free lot on Donner Pass Road next to Beacon. TART

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(530) 582-7892 | parks.ca.gov The Donner Memorial State Park features exhibits and artifacts on the Donner Party (184647) at the visitor center, and see the towering Pioneer Monument. TART

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Truckee

Summer | (530) 583-3279 | terc.ucdavis.edu This 1920s-era building features a history of the field station, current UC Davis research projects, interactive exhibits and demonstration garden. Ages 8+. TART

Thunderbird Lodge

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visittahoecity.com Tahoe City is popular for shopping and dining with historical sites. At the junction of highways 89 & 28, visitors may see the Tahoe City Dam, Lake Tahoe’s only outlet, and Fanny Bridge. Peer into Watson Cabin (1909) in the center of town for a glimpse at pioneer life. Free parking at Commons Beach, Grove Street, Jackpine Street and 64 acres at Highways 89 & 28. TART

South Lake Tahoe

Hellman-Ehrman Mansion

Tahoe City

(530) 581-2787 | northtahoearts.com Featuring exhibits of work by local artists and works for sale by local artists. TART

South Lake Tahoe

Fannette Island

Incline Village

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Shoreline: 72 miles Lake Tahoe has a surface area of 191 square miles. If Lake Tahoe were emptied, it would submerge California under 15 inches of water.

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Lake Tahoe sits at an average elevation of between 6,223’ and 6,229.1’. The top 6.1’ of water is controlled by the dam in Tahoe City and holds up to 744,600 acre feet of water.

Lake Tahoe is as long as the English Channel is wide.

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Average Water Temperature: 42.1˚F

There is enough water in Lake Tahoe to supply everyone in the United States with more than 75 gallons of water per day for 5 years.

Size: 22 miles long, 12 miles wide

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Watershed Area: 312 square miles

Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. (Crater Lake in Oregon, at 1,932 feet, is the deepest), and the 11th deepest in the world.

Natural rim: 6,223’

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How the lake was formed

About 3 to 5 million years ago, the valley that would become the Tahoe Basin sank between parallel fractures in the Earth’s crust as the mountains on either side continued to rise. A shallow lake began to form in the resulting valley.

Roughly 2 to 3 million years ago, erupting volcanoes blocked the outlet, forcing the lake to rise hundreds of feet above its current elevation, and eventually eroded down to near its current outlet.

Between 1 million and 20,000 years ago, large masses of glacial ice covered the west side of the Tahoe Basin. Current geologic theory suggests an earthen berm (moraine) left by a receding glacier near Olympic Valley acted as a dam, causing the lake level to rise and then draw down rapidly when the dam catastrophically failed. Between

7,000 and 15,000 years ago, a four-mile segment of the West Shore collapsed into the Lake causing a massive submerged debris avalanche, widening the Lake by three miles and creating McKinney Bay.1 The Tahoe Basin is mostly granite, with little topsoil, and therefore few nutrients have washed into the lake to promote the growth of algae and other organisms that make water murky.

As well, 40 percent of the precipitation falling into the Tahoe Basin lands directly on the lake. The remaining precipitation drains through the decomposed granite soil found in marshes and meadows, creating a good filtering system for water.

Urbanization of the Tahoe Basin has eliminated 75 percent of its marshes, 50 percent of its meadows and 35 percent of its steam zone habitats. About 85 percent of all wildlife in the Tahoe Basin use these habitats.

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About the lake Lake Tahoe is located in the states of California and Nevada, with two-thirds in California. It is fed by 63 streams and two hot springs.

The Truckee River is Tahoe’s only outlet and flows from the dam in Tahoe City east through Reno and eventually drains into Pyramid Lake in the Nevada desert.

However, water releases are not permitted when the lake surface level falls below the natural rim at 6,223.’ The lowest lake level on record (measured since 1900) was 6,220.26’ on Nov. 30, 1992.

The Lake of the Sky appears blue in color as other colors in the light spectrum are absorbed and blue light is scattered back.

Lake clarity The University of California, Davis, operates the Tahoe Environmental Resarch Center, which monitors, among other

things, the clarity of Lake Tahoe. Clarity has been measured since 1968 and was first recorded at 102.4’.

The waters of Lake Tahoe were clear to an average depth of 59.7 in 2017. The lowest average depth on record was 64.1’ in 1997. Lake Tahoe is losing clarity because of algae growth fueled by nitrogen and phosphorus.

Lake Tahoe’s discovery The first recorded discovery of Lake Tahoe by white explorers was on Feb. 14, 1844, when John Charles Frémont and Charles Preuss spotted the lake from atop Red Lake Peak. The lake went through several names before it was officially named Tahoe in 1945.

Tahoe is a mispronunciation of the first two syllables of the Washoe’s word for the lake – Da ow a ga, which means “edge of the lake.” 

Learn more: Visit the Tahoe Science Center in Incline Village or tahoesciencecenter.org. Sources: Tahoe Environmental Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Forest Service, “Tahoe Place Names” and David Antonucci (denoted by 1).

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AUGUST 16 | THURSDAY River Talk Truckee River Watershed Council office Truckee

Join a short, informational River Talk about past and present threats to the Truckee River and how to help restore and protect it. Learn how human impact has damaged the Truckee River Watershed and hear about the work the Watershed Council is doing to reverse this damage. RSVP (530) 550-8760, ext. 5. 8-9 a.m.

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here are many spectacular hikes in the Tahoe Sierra, but the trail to Lower and Upper Echo Lakes is the only one I’m aware of that offers water taxi service if you want to shave nearly 3 miles off your approach toward Desolation Wilderness or if you’re just bone tired on the way back and want a quick nautical lift to the car.

The taxi can deliver you to the far end of Upper Echo Lake and back again, but the service runs only from Memorial Day through Labor Day. The hike is 4.9 miles roundtrip if you skip the taxi.

Conversation Café Aspen Grove Community Center Incline Village

This is a drop-in conversation forum every week except holidays. Participate with people sharing diverse views and a passion for en-gaging with others over topics and news.

10:15-11:15 a.m. | (775) 832-1310

This moderate hike above the shoreline of Lower and Upper Echo Lakes starts at 7,525

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Ongoing computer help. First Thursdays of the month are “Exploring the Interweb,” second Thursdays are “Computers Questions with Carl LeBlanc,” third Thursdays are “Everything iPhone” and fourth Thursdays are differing themes about technology. 3-4 p.m. | placer.ca.gov

Truckee Thursdays Downtown Truckee | Truckee

Truckee Downtown Merchants Association presents Truckee Thursdays, part street fair and part block party, in historic downtown. Hobnob with locals, meet visitors and join in the fun — live music, activity booths, local vendors and food trucks. Free area shuttle each week. 5-8:30 p.m. | historictruckee.com

Tahoe Star Tours Northstar’s Dark Skies Cosmoarium | Truckee

Northstar Dark Skies Cosmoarium offers star guide Tony Berendsen for an intimate look at the Sierra stars. View the cosmos through high-powered Celestron telescopes.

7-10 p.m. | eventbrite.com

AUGUST 17 | FRIDAY Cool Car Cruizen Fridays Heavenly Village | South Lake Tahoe

Join the fun every Friday until Oct. 12.

All cool vehicles welcome. 5-8 p.m. Free | goodsamsaferide.com

Tahoe Star Tours Northstar’s Dark Skies Cosmoarium | Truckee

Northstar Dark Skies Cosmoarium offers star guide Tony Berendsen for an intimate look at the Sierra stars. View the cosmos through high-powered Celestron telescopes. 7-10 p.m. | eventbrite.com

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hundred feet up and down the first 3 miles.

The trailhead for these two beautiful lakes starts at the Echo Chalet west of Echo Summit on U.S. Route 50, about 10 miles south of South Lake Tahoe.

Driving west on U.S. Route 50, just past the summit make a right turn onto Johnson Pass Road and follow signs to Echo Chalet. Park at the upper lot and walk down to the pier and boating area to the trailhead just past the dam. You’ll pass by the chalet’s family-owned grocery store with friendly staff. The trail is dog friendly, but pets should be on a leash, especially on entering Desolation Wilderness.

This moderate hike above the shoreline of Lower and Upper Echo Lakes starts at 7,525 feet above sea level but climbs only a few hundred feet up and down the first 3 miles, the approximate distance to the far end of Upper Echo Lake and the border with Desolation Wilderness. The two lakes are connected by a narrow water channel that may be closed to small boat traffic during low-water conditions. These small alpine reservoirs are popular with fishermen, boaters, kayakers and swimmers; numerous summer cottages have sprouted along the shorelines of both.

For those with the time and energy, from the trailhead at Lower Echo Lake it’s about 6 miles one way to Lake Aloha, a popular destination for day hikers and backpackers. Aloha is a dammed, shallow lake speckled with small granite-rock features that may shrink or expand based on drought conditions and time of year.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: The water taxi at Echo Lakes; Hiking along the shoreline of Lower Echo Lake; Homes dot the shorelines of Lower Echo Lake.

A wilderness permit is required to visit Lake Aloha because Desolation Wilderness is the most-used wilderness area per acre in the United States. During the summer, a quota system is in effect to disperse backpackers and campers throughout the 64,000 acres with wilderness designation, which must be obtained in advance. Dayuse permits for hikers are available at the Echo Lakes trailhead. The Tahoe Rim Trail also intersects this trailhead and if you’re really ambitious, a 48-mile trek will get you to Tahoe City.

The well-maintained trail to Upper Echo Lake meanders along glaciated granite worn smooth in the last ice age, past stunted juniper pine and Western red cedar trees. A variety of wildflowers add splashes of color in season, but on calm summer afternoons temperatures can really warm up on sections of the trail with little opportunity for shade. During winter months, this area is popular with snowshoers and crosscountry skiers who have obtained a permit for the Echo Lake Sno-Park parking area between Sierra-at-Tahoe and Echo Summit on U.S. Route 50.

High above Echo Lakes looms 9,239-feet-tall Ralston Peak, which beckons adventurous hikers searching for a high-altitude, birds-eye view of Lake Tahoe, Echo Lakes, Lake Aloha and many prominent Sierra peaks. Ralston Peak can also be accessed off of U.S. Route 50 near Sierra-at-Tahoe, but that thigh-burner trail is steep with significant elevation gain.

The mountain is named for William Ralston, founder of the Bank of California, a San Francisco-based institution that utilized its business agent William Sharon to good effect. Sharon was the bank’s shrewd and ruthless representative that used unscrupulous tactics to gain control of some of the best producing mines in operation on Nevada’s Comstock Lode during the 1860s and 1870s. The day after Ralston bankrupted his own bank with reckless speculation in mining stocks and expensive real-estate developments, he died during his daily swim in San Francisco Bay, the result of either stroke or suicide.

Carry cash for the water taxi, which is $14 per person and $5 per dog, with a three-person minimum. There’s a phone to call for the taxi, but you’ll need a credit card to use the payphone if the phone isn’t working. Water taxi (530) 659-7207. | echochalet.net  9

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Stargazing Guided Tour

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Incline Village Library Incline Village

Come gaze into the vast beyond and learn about constellations, the history of reading stars, and perhaps a bit about your astrological sign. 9-10:30 p.m. $15-$25 | (866) 791-7417, destinationhotels.com

AUGUST 18 | SATURDAY Sierra Speaker Series with Roger Huff Donner Memorial State Park Visitor Center | Truckee

A free evening in the Visitor Center with special speakers on topics from Tales and Towns along the Truckee to cougars. Complimentary refreshments. Wine available for purchase. Suggested $5 donation. Parking free after 5 p.m. 5-6:30 p.m. Free | (530) 583-9911, sierrastateparks.org

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Martinez (his first name is pronounced ‘Shoe-Tez-Caht’) is an 18-year-old indigenous climate activist, hip-hop artist and powerful voice on the front lines of a global youth-led environmental movement. At the age of 6, Martinez began speaking around the world, from the United Nations Summit in Rio de Janeiro to the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York. He has worked to get pesticides out of parks, to contain coal ash, to impose moratoriums on fracking in his state and is currently a plaintiff in a youth-led lawsuit against the federal government for its failure to protect the atmosphere for future generations.

AUGUST 21 | TUESDAY

Lake Tahoe Historical Musuem South Lake Tahoe

Join the Lake Tahoe Historical Society’s annual fundraiser, a gala presentation to commemorate the 50th Anniversary. Three talented performers will present Duane L. Bliss, lumber baron and entrepreneur, George Whittell Jr., playboy and owner of the Thunderbird Lodge, and Lillian Virgin Finnegan, suffragette and creator of the Genoa Candy Dance. 7 p.m. | (530) 541-5458, laketahoemuseum.org

Offers kids a fun way to explore different ways to learn about technology. A new activity each week. 4-5 p.m. | (775) 832-4130

Ink(ubator) Tahoe Mountain Lab South Lake Tahoe

Join a roundtable discussion for entrepreneurs. Talk about your latest endeavor, roadblock and success. Get help and advice or give some out to someone else. 6-8 p.m. | tahoemountainlab.com

AUGUST 22 | WEDNESDAY Changemaker Open Space 11012 DPR | Truckee

Calling all nonprofit unicorns and social entrepreneurs looking for an inspiring space to work and connect with other changemakers. Come to the Changemaker Open Space.

A comfortable and creative space to advance world-saving efforts. Donations accepted.

1-5:30 p.m. Free | eventbrite.com

Stargazing Guided Tour Resort at Squaw Creek Olympic Valley

Come gaze into the vast beyond and learn about constellations, the history of reading stars, and perhaps a bit about your astrological sign. 9-10:30 p.m. $15-$25 | (866) 791-7417, destinationhotels.com

Tahoe Star Tours Northstar’s Dark Skies Cosmoarium Truckee

Northstar Dark Skies Cosmoarium offers star guide Tony Berendsen for an intimate look at the Sierra stars. View the cosmos through high-powered Celestron telescopes.

7-10 p.m. | eventbrite.com

AUGUST 20 | MONDAY

AUGUST 23 | THURSDAY Conversation Café Aspen Grove Community Center Incline Village

This is a drop-in conversation forum every week except holidays. Participate with people sharing diverse views and a passion for engaging with others over topics and news.

10:15-11:15 a.m. | (775) 832-1310

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Enjoy a free glass of wine while exploring the Marion Steinbach Indian Basket Collection, the 1960 Olympics Exhibits and more. 21+.

6-8 p.m. Free | (530) 583-1762

Tickets are $10 for children and students and $15 for general admission. | squawvalleyinstitute.org

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Course Details 18 holes | par 66

Yardage 4,028

Slope 96

Ratings 61.7

Hole 3

ahoe Paradise Golf Course is an 18hole course with short par 4s and many holes that dogleg left or right. One can easily spot it off State Route 50 on the way to Meyers.

The course reminds me of the movie “Caddyshack,” with a small snack bar inside and white tent with picnic tables out back by the putting green and first and last holes. I saw a few dogs either chasing

I heard a lot of trees being hit and a few people yelling, “Fore,” but it has a creative design that leaves a lot of surprises in store. after golf carts or helping to pull handcarts — and a dog tied up to a cart, patiently waiting for its owner to repair a bunker on Hole 2. Even though the greens were in great condition, I fully expected a gopher to pop out of somewhere and start dancing to Kenny Loggins singing “I’m Alright.”

On Hole 9 I had the best putt of my life and thought that the clouds were going to roll in and lightning would strike me at any moment as what happened to the bishop character in the movie.

A young guy playing in the foursome who tees off before us admits that he plays Tahoe Paradise quite a bit because it keeps him out of trouble. He tells us that he played 54 holes in one day; it took about nine hours.

At the time he said that it seemed almost unbelievable, until we played the course and realized how possible it was to tee off and

make it onto the green on a few of the holes.

We completed the course in 3½ hours.

“The greens like to move and remember that everything rolls towards the lake,” says Tahoe Paradise Pro Shop attendant John.

This course is pretty tight. I heard a lot of trees being hit and a few people yelling, “Fore,” but it has a creative design that leaves a lot of surprises in store.

On Hole 1, I managed a 12-foot putt to get close to the hole and then it rolled 10 feet back downhill. Once we got away from the first hole, we felt tucked into the ponderosas. I barely missed a tree to the right on the second hole and that put me at an advantage to hit a decent approach shot, but my golfing partner wasn’t so lucky. Fortunately, I chipped the ball to a tree stump next to the green where it ricocheted off and landed in a pretty good puttable spot.

Hole 5 is 92 yards from the red tees with a pond to the right and a house to the left; both are about as close as you can get to the fairway. The whites offer a bit more yardage so I played those, as well.

Hole 6 is challenging; your best bet is to end up between forked trees on the left side and a large tree on the right side — and hope that you make it onto the right part of the green. I came up on the bottom level of the two-tiered green and had to putt it uphill on about a 30-degree vertical —like some crazy design you’d see at a miniature golf course.

The back nine’s yardage was similar to the front, with par 3s and 4s ranging from 83-yard holes to 326.

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On Aug. 17, there will be a community gathering kick-off party at Commons Beach in Tahoe City. Then on Aug. 18, everyone of all skill levels and ages is encouraged to longboard, bike, blade or roller skate with B4BC. | B4BC.org

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Kings Beach Library | Kings Beach

Ongoing computer help. First Thursdays of the month are “Exploring the Interweb,” second Thursdays are “Computers Questions with Carl LeBlanc,” third Thursdays are “Everything iPhone” and fourth Thursdays are differing themes about technology.

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Truckee Chamber Mixer Clair Tappaan Lodge | Norden

All Chamber members are invited to a Chamber Mixer hosted by Clair Tappaan Lodge. Come for networking, bring business cards and enjoy great beverages, appetizers and raffle prizes. 5-7 p.m. | chamber.truckee.com

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Evening at Lake Mary Lake Mary Cabin | Norden

Join Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation for an evening in the mountains with board members, supporters and staff for a special dinner. RSVP by Aug. 17. 5:30-8 p.m. | eventbrite.com

Tahoe Star Tours Northstar’s Dark Skies Cosmoarium Truckee

Northstar Dark Skies Cosmoarium offers star guide Tony Berendsen for an intimate look at the Sierra stars. View the cosmos through high-powered Celestron telescopes.

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Truckee Downtown Merchants Association presents Truckee Thursdays, part street fair and part block party, in historic downtown. Hobnob with locals, meet visitors and join in the fun — live music, activity booths, local vendors and food trucks.

Free area shuttle each week. 5-8:30 p.m. | historictruckee.com

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Aug. 16-22, 2018

FEATURE

GALENA FALLS

H I G H C O U N T R Y WAT E R FA L L & W I L D F L O W E R S STORY & PHOTOS BY TIM HAUSERMAN

I’ve been told

that the 2.5-mile jaunt along the Tahoe Rim Trail to Galena Falls is the busiest section of trail in the entire Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. The trail does have all the ingredients to be a busy trail: It’s fairly short, it’s easy without a lot of elevation gain, there are views of Mount Rose and it ends with a lovely waterfall. The trail is also located at the top of the Mount Rose Highway, making it the closest high-elevation hike to Reno. It’s also the first part of the hike to the top of Mount Rose.

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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: A view of Snow Pond from the Mount Rose Trail; Galena Falls with Mount Rose in the background; Galena Falls is an easy and popular hike.

I arrived at the Mount Rose Trailhead at just before 9 a.m. to discover that the parking lot was already full. So I went with Plan B. I drove back to Tahoe Meadows Rim Trail parking lot about three-quarters of a mile toward Incline Village, Nev. This added a bit over 1 mile each way to the distance, but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. I followed the Tahoe Meadows Interpretative Trail to the Mount Rose Trailhead and passed meadows that were abloom with waves of elephant heads and shooting stars.

Mount Rose Trail begins with a gentle ascent across a sandy slope dotted with paintbrush, lupine and phlox. The views include Tahoe Meadows below and Lake Tahoe. After about a half mile of easy climbing, the trail reaches a saddle with a more dramatic vista of Tahoe. The trail then reaches the saddle and begins a long traverse along the slope of Tamarack Peak.

Over the next 2 miles, there is little in the way of climbing. The trail crosses over the path of a recent avalanche, which tumbled through last winter carrying trees with it steeply downhill to a now-shimmering Tamarack Lake. Views of Mount Rose pop up in the gaps between the trees, as well as the deep, lushly green Galena Canyon.

The true highlight of this section is the trees.

This trail enables those who are not up for a long hike to see the high-altitude flora that usually requires a lot more effort to reach. Here at more than 9,000 feet you get ancient mountain hemlock, enormous lodgepole, western white pines and the region’s highest tree, whitebark pine, which is frequently accompanied by lots of Clark’s nutcrackers, a mid-sized gray and black bird. The whitebark pine and nutcracker are codependent. The nutcracker really likes whitebark cones. When they bury thousands of whitebark seeds in a number of different caches in the dirt, they often forget some of them, which later grow into whitebark pine trees. Ah, the power of forgetfulness.

THE TRAIL ROUNDS A CORNER AND THERE IT IS — GALENA FA L L S . I T R U S H E S DOWN THE RED-ROCK SLOPE IN SEVERAL BRAIDS OF FROTH.

Eventually, at just more than 2 miles, the trail rounds a corner and there it is — Galena Falls. It rushes down the red-rock slope in several braids of froth. From the bottom, just a few steep switchbacks on the TRT leads to the top of the falls where you can enjoy your lunch next to the water.

The interesting thing about Galena Falls is that until this section of the Tahoe Rim Trail was built about 15 years ago, it was unknown by most hikers.

The trail to Mount Rose’s summit followed the old road up to Relay Peak for the first 2.5 miles then dropped down a sharp descent before heading up steeply to Mount Rose. The falls were tucked around the corner and not visible from any trail. It was hard to imagine they even existed because there is no major stream headed toward the cliff. The water source begins in a spring surrounded by thick brush just a few hundred yards above the falls. Based on the crowds I saw though, the falls are certainly on everyone’s radar now.

From the falls you have several options. First, you can continue on the Tahoe Rim Trail, which climbs

up through a pleasant open forest and crosses the old trail up to Mount Rose. The trail then climbs for 2 miles to Mount Houghton. It’s a hefty ascent, but it’s a beauty of a hike winding past volcanic outcroppings and small groves of enormous whitebark pines to a jaw-dropping view at the top.

Another option is to climb Mount Rose, Tahoe’s third highest peak at 10,776 feet. The good news is you have already hiked half the distance to the top; the bad news is you have a lot of elevation gain in front of you.

A final option is to continue on the TRT, hang a left at the old Mount Rose Trailhead, another left at Relay Peak Road and wind your way around the slope of the mountain back to the Mount Rose Trailhead. This was my busy-day plan because it is usually much less crowded. There are amazing views of Snow Pond, Relay Peak, Tahoe Meadows, Lake Tahoe and the meadow that used to be Incline Lake before it was drained several years ago. Whichever route you take, it’s all good, this is a beautiful corner of the Tahoe Sierra. | tahoerimtrail.org  13

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Make It! Take It!

Teen Scene

Tahoe City Library Tahoe City | Aug. 16, 17

Kahle Community Center Stateline | Aug. 17

Get your maker hat on at the library with crafts for elementary age kids on a drop-in basis. Each week a new project will be revealed. Crafts can be done in the library or take it to go. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | eventbrite.com

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Taylor Creek Visitor Center South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 16, 23

FINDING

FRIDAY FAMILY FUN Fridays from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Village at Northstar California are dedicated to families and friends until Aug. 28. Activities include miniature golf, complimentary face painting, balloon twisting and roller skating. While parents unwind with craft cocktails in rolling-rink-side cabanas listening to tunes spun by a DJ on the Village stage, kids and the young at heart can squeeze out every bit of summer energy. | northstarcalifornia.com

A different action-filled project each week teaches kids 6 to 12 years old how the parts of nature are connected as they earn their Jr. Forest Ranger badges. 10 a.m. | takecaretahoe.org

Pre-Schooler Story Time Tahoe City Library | Tahoe City | Aug. 16, 23

Family Movie Night Northwoods Clubhouse Truckee | Aug. 17

Bring a favorite pillow and blanket and enjoy classic and new movies. All films are rated G or PG. 6:30 p.m. Free | tahoe-donner.com

Lego Club Truckee Library | Truckee | Aug. 18

Ongoing for kids on Saturdays. 12-1 p.m. | (530) 582-7846, mynevadacounty.com

For ages 5 and younger. 10:30-11 a.m. | (530) 583-3382, placer.ca.gov

Toy Boat Buildling

Toddler Story Time

Work together to glue together the parts and then get creative with painting and decorating the boat. Ages 3 to 9. Drop in.

2-4 p.m. | tahoemaritimemuseum.org

Incline Village Library Incline Village | Aug. 16, 23

With stories, puppets, music and movement for ages 18 months to 3 years.

11:15-11:45 a.m. | (775) 832-4130

Preschool story time Truckee Library Truckee | Aug. 16, 23

For ages 3 years and older. A half-hour stay-and-play after the reading. 11:30 a.m. | (530) 582-7846, mynevadacounty.com

Teen Center Boys & Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe Kings Beach | Aug. 16, 17, Aug. 20-23

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Kids in grades 6-12 can shoot hoops, play volleyball, climb the rock wall and play arcade or video games. 6:30-9 p.m. | (775) 586-7271

Teen Center at Boys & Girls Club for 7th graders and older. Computers, TVs, video games, books, pool table and board games.

Open gym Wednesday-Friday 6-7 p.m.

7 p.m. | (530) 546-4324, bgcnlt.org

Family Movies At Squaw The Village at Squaw Valley Truckee | Aug. 16, 23

Families and friends can enjoy movies on the big screen in the Events Plaza each Thursday night until Aug. 30. Movies at 8:30 p.m., weather permitting. Blankets and warm clothes are recommended. 8:30-10:30 p.m.

Free | (530) 584-6266, squawalpine.com

Tahoe Maritime Museum Tahoe City | Aug. 18

Young Adult Writers’ Meetup South Lake Tahoe Library South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 18

Meet with fellow writers for discussion and writing. Laptops available. Snacks provided.

3-4 p.m.

Kids Night Out Northwoods Clubhouse | Truckee | Aug. 18

Kids ages 4-9 are invited to an evening of fun at Northwoods Clubhouse while parents enjoy a night on the town. 5-9 p.m. | tahoedonner.com

Kids playtime Truckee Library | Truckee | Aug. 20

Truckee Library hosts an unstructured playtime for children and parents. Toys are provided. 4:30-5:30 p.m. | (530) 582-7846, mynevadacounty.com

Toddler Time Truckee Library | Truckee | Aug. 21

For ages 18 months to 3 years. A half-hour stay and play after the reading. 10:30 a.m. | (530) 582-7846

Tech Tuesdays Chris-Craft Kids Tahoe Maritime Museum Tahoe City | Aug. 17

Kids 12 and younger can take a ride on “Star Dust” for free. 8:30-11:30 a.m. | tahoemaritimemuseum.org

Family Fun Fridays

* Back to School Labor Day Nursery Sale 20% off ALL Nursery Stock August 27th to September 3rd * Full Service Florist * Christmas Shoppe 866 Tahoe Blvd., Incline Village, NV | (775) 831-7390 Open Seven Days a Week | HSGardens.com 14

KidZone Museum | Truckee | Aug. 17

Play-based class designed to inspire exploration and discovery through art. For ages 5 and younger. 11 a.m. | kidzonemuseum.org

Parents’ Night Out First Baptist Church of Tahoe City Tahoe City | Aug. 17

Go out for a night on the town feeling confident that your children are safe and having the time of their lives. Children ages birth through 11 years old will enjoy games, crafts, recreation and a movie. Registration is required. 6-10 p.m. | (530) 583-1534, tahoeministries.com

Incline Village Library | Incline Village | Aug. 21

Offers kids a fun way to explore different ways to learn about technology. A new activity each week. 4-5 p.m. | (775) 832-4130

Story Time Truckee Library | Truckee | Aug. 22

For ages 6 months to 2 years. A half-hour stay and play after the reading. 10:30 a.m. | (530) 582-7846, mynevadacounty.com

Story time Zephyr Cove Library | Zephyr Cove | Aug. 22 Enjoy stories, songs, activities and coloring. 11:30 a.m. | (775) 588-6411, catalog. douglas.lib.nv.us

Movies on the Beach Commons Beach | Tahoe City | Aug. 22

Enjoy a free, family friendly movie every Wednesday until Aug. 22 at dusk. | visittahoecity.org

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The Zephyr Cove course is 18 holes covering 5,256 feet with holes of varying lengths. On Warrior Way. BlueGo

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Kayak & Paddleboard Rentals on the beach in Tahoe Vista, 7010 N. Lake Blvd.

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At High Camp at Squaw Valley. All ages. Aerial Tram ticket required. TART

18-hole course at Truckee River Regional Park, off Brockway Road. Dogs must be on leash. Free. Daily dawn-dusk. TART

ULTRALIGHT EDDYLINES, AND MORE!

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18-hole course at Squaw Valley’s High Camp. Disc rentals.

Open Mid June. TART

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25-yard indoor/outdoor year-round pool. Lessons. BlueGo

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RENTALS | TOURS | LESSONS | SALES | DELIVERY

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25-yard indoor pool with 6 lanes, 1-meter spring diving board, swim training, hydraulic lift at Tahoe-Truckee High School. TART

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Smoke Free Every Day!

Scenic, 2-hour sailing cruises from Tahoe City Marine.

Private charters. TART

“Tahoe Gal”

(800) 218-2464 | tahoegal.com Cruises to Emerald Bay, Happy Hour, dinner, sunset, full moon, Sunday dinner/live music, comedy dinner, and more.

Next to Lighthouse Center, east end of Tahoe City. TART

Call (530) 546-5995, ext. 110, to be listed in Family Fun. Visit TheTahoeWeekly.com for more family activities.

Click on Kids under the Out & About menu.

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OUT & ABOUT

TheTahoeWeekly.com

Wet ‘n’ Dirty Women’s Basic Bike Maintenance Clinic

Volunteer Trail Work Day

Truckee | Aug. 16

TD Trail System Truckee | Aug. 18

Routine bike maintenance keeps you riding smoothly and prolongs the life of your bike.

This introductory class will help you take care of your bike before, during and after rides.

4-6 p.m. | tahoedonner.com

Sky Tavern Grass Roots Bike Series

“Faces of Winter” | Cam McLeod, Warren Miller Entertainment

Sky Tavern | Reno | Aug. 17

SKI FILM SEASON

HAS ARRIVED

The season’s ski film trailers are coming out just in time to help cool down the heat of August with releases from some of the best in the industry – Matchstick Productions, Teton Gravity Research, Warren Miller Entertainment and Level 1.

As always, Tahoe Weekly has all of the season’s latest releases at TheTahoeWeekly. com and we’ll keep adding them as they are released for the 2018-19 season. The best way to keep up with the latest is to follow us at facebook.com/TheTahoeWeekly to get all of the releases as soon as we get them.

Here’s what you’ll find at TheTahoeWeekly.com: “All In” | Matchstick Productions

“Faces of Winter” teaser | Warren Miller Entertainment

“Far Out” | Teton Gravity Research

“Hoji” | Matchstick Productions

“Zig Zag” | Level 1 Productions

Echo Summit Backcountry Camp

Shirley Canyon Guided Hike

Echo Summit Trailhead Echo Lake | Aug. 16-19

Resort at Squaw Creek Olympic Valley | Aug. 16, 17, 23

Guided Wildflower Hikes Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows Olympic Valley | Aug. 16-23

This summer enjoy daily guided hikes until Sept. 3 at 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. at High Camp. Dogs are welcome and there are no reservations necessary. 2:30 p.m. | (800) 403-0206, squawalpine.com

Hike with a Ranger Heavenly Mountain South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 16-23

Hikes begin at the top of the gondola every day at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. until Sept. 2.

The guided moderate hikes last about an hour and a half. Closed toed shoes and drinking water required. Free hikes; gondola ticket required. First-come, first-served. 11 a.m. | (530) 543-2730

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Hike up Shirley Canyon for amazing vistas of Lake Tahoe past wildflowers, waterfalls and granite walls. Take the tram down after this 3.6-mile moderate hike. Includes lunch and naturalist guide. Children younger than age 10 allowed in backpack carriers only.

9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. $50-$80 | (866) 791-7417, destinationhotels.com

Introduction to Backpacking in the High Sierra, Tahoe National Forest Clair Tappaan Lodge Norden | Aug. 19-23

Explore the Sierra Nevada in all its glory.

Learn how to become a confident backpacker and sleep in a cozy lodge or camp near lakes and mountains. Good camaraderie while learning backpacking skills. | (415) 977-5522, content.sierraclub.org

Taylor Creek Evening Programs Taylor Creek South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 17

Sit under the stars and discover Taylor Creek’s Friday night programs at the Lake of the Sky Amphitheater. 8 p.m. | takecaretahoe.org

Rainbow Walk Taylor Creek Visitor Center South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 19, 21, 22

Join a naturalist for a walk down the Rainbow Trail to learn about the connection between Lake Tahoe and the meadow, marsh and stream. 10:30 a.m. | takecaretahoe.org

Big Chief Trail Day Truckee | Aug. 18

Join volunteers to connect Sawtooth with Watson Lake and the Tahoe Rim Trail totaling 7 miles of new trail over the summer. Register.

8 a.m.-2 p.m. | truckeetrails.org

Hike in Lower Carpenter Valley The Lower Carpenter Valley Truckee | Aug. 18, 23

Truckee Donner Land Trust hosts a guided hike in the Lower Carpenter Valley. Enjoy a docent-led, 5+mile hike on mostly flat terrain on somewhat rough ranch roads at about 6,200 feet in elevation. Participants should be able to hike about 2.5 hours at a moderate pace with some stops. 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | tdlandtrust.org

Northern Nevada Dragon Boat Festival

Join a Tahoe Rim Trail Association backcountry camp to help build some trail. 4 p.m. | tahoerimtrail.org

Sky Tavern will be hosting a Grassroots Bike Series. It will be fun for the entire family.

All age groups and levels welcome. Come on up for some good ol’ family fun. Project Discovery will be offering Zip-line rides.

4:30-9:30 p.m. | skytavern.com

Give back and help construct a new trail between the Teton and Glacier trailheads. | tahoedonner.com

Sparks Marina | Reno | Aug. 18

A 2,500-year-old Chinese sport comes to life. The 2nd annual Northern Nevada Dragon Boat Festival celebrates ancient Chinese culture, sport and the natural wonders of the Reno-Sparks region.

What Are Dragon Boats? Dragon boats are 40-foot human-powered canoes decorated with ornate Chinese dragon heads and tails. Free | (855) 496-2628, visitrenotahoe.com

Eagle’s Nest Summit Hike Resort at Squaw Creek Olympic Valley | Aug. 20

This difficult hike is extremely rewarding and has an amazing view of Lake Tahoe. The hike will gain 1,990’ in elevation and is about 10.5 miles. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. | (530) 5816610, destinationhotels.com

Service and Stewardship Clair Tappaan Lodge Norden | Aug. 20-23

The mountains, meadows, lakes, and rivers that surround Truckee Donner are spectacularly beautiful and wonderful places to hike, swim, and play. Participants will be working in these gorgeous protected areas, hiking and swimming, and returning each day to the Lodge for a delicious meal and time to relax in the hot tub. | (415) 977-5522, content.sierraclub.org

Tamarack Trail Days Mt. Rose trailhead Incline Village | Aug. 20

TAMBA has an ambitious schedule of weekend trail days this year scattered around the lake to make new connections or to make old trails more rideable. 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free | tamba.org

Trails and Giant Tree Hunt

55+ Hiking Series

Kingsbury South / Stagecoach Trailhead Kingsbury | Aug. 18

Area Venues Incline Village | Aug. 21

Let the TRTA and the Sugar Pine Foundation take participants to possibly the largest tree on the Tahoe Rim Trail and in the top three largest western white pines found.

10 a.m.-2 p.m. | tahoerimtrail.org

Hikers age 55 and older can visit different Tahoe locales as part of IVGID Senior Programs. Meet in Incline Village Recreation Center lobby. Bring water, lunch and wear appropriate clothing and shoes. 8:30 a.m.3 p.m. | yourtahoeplace.com

Truckee Trails workday Sierra Sunset Vista Resort at Squaw Creek Olympic Valley | Aug. 16, 21, 23

A short walk onto Resort at Squaw Creek golf course will place you right in the middle of the Olympic Valley. Watch a beautiful sunset while learning about the history of the valley. Snack on some of our favorite cheeses and local wines. 7:30-9 p.m. | (866) 791-7417, destinationhotels.com

TBA | Truckee | Aug. 18

Volunteers are needed to work on trail building and maintenance. 8 a.m.-2 p.m. | truckeetrails.org

Virginia City Rodeo & Fiesta Del Charron Virginia City Fairgrounds Virginia City | Aug. 18, 19

Saddle up and ride on up to Virginia City’s Arena and Fairgrounds for the return of The Way It Was Rodeo. Flying U Rodeo, headed by rodeo legend Cotton Rosser, brings a weekend of extreme bronc riding, trick roping, barrel racing, mutton bustin’ and so much more to Virginia City. | visitvirginiacity.com

Pacos Ladies Ride Pacos Bike Shop | Truckee | Aug. 21

The Pacos Ladies Ride meets at the shop for a fun packed girl-powered mountain bike ride. There is nothing like joining a group of like-minded woman for an evening of exercise and crisp mountain air as the last few magical hours of daylight fade out. 5:30 p.m. | (530) 587-5561, pacosxc.com

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OUT & ABOUT

Aug. 16-22, 2018

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CARNELIAN WEST BEACH PATTON LANDING

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Hwy. 28, Tahoe City behind old fire station

Hwy. 28, Downtown Tahoe City

LAKE FOREST BEACH POMIN PARK SKYLANDIA

Lake Forest Road, 1.5 miles east of Tahoe City

Lake Forest Road, east of Tahoe City

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64-ACRES PARK & BELL’S LANDING

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D.L. BLISS STATE PARK

Hwy. 89, 17 miles south of Tahoe City

ELIZABETH WILLIAMS PARK EMERALD BAY BEACH KILNER PARK

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MARIE SLUCHAK PARK MEEKS BAY

Hwy. 89, 4 miles south of Tahoe City

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Serving Truckee & Tahoe areas for over 40 years!

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TRUCKEE

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Hwy. 267, 1 mile south of Truckee Airport

RIVER VIEW SPORTS PARK

12200 Joerger Drive

TRUCKEE RIVER REGIONAL PARK

Hwy. 267, .25 miles south of Truckee

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OUT & ABOUT

Hiking

TheTahoeWeekly.com

*Trails open depending on conditions.

WET ‘N’ DIRTY

Mileage is roundtrip, with levels based on family access.

All trails are more heavily used on weekends.

TAHOE RIM TRAIL

EMERALD BAY & VIKINGSHOLM CASTLE

The Tahoe Rim Trail is a 164.8-mile loop trail that encircles Lake Tahoe. The trail is open to hikers and equestrians, and mountain bikers in some sections. It is generally moderate in difficulty, with a 10 percent average grade and elevations ranging from 6,300 to 10,333’. Visit tahoerimtrail.org for maps, guided hikes & descriptions.

GRANITE LAKE

EAST SHORE

MARLETTE LAKE Moderate | 9 miles RT Walk along the dirt path through the picnic area and follow signs to Marlette Lake. Mostly sun exposed. Great wildflowers in early summer. Start at Spooner Lake State Park.

SECRET HARBOR & CHIMNEY BEACH Easy | 3 miles RT Follow the trail to Chimney Beach trail and follow the trail to the end and over a group of boulders to reach the sandy beaches of Secret Harbor (the wooden steps off the trail lead to the nude beach at Secret Cove). Off Hwy. 28.

SKUNK HARBOR Moderate | 2.8 miles RT This interesting hike ends at a beautiful cove lined with boulders and a luxurious sandy beach on the edge of Lake Tahoe with some of the warmest waters around the lake.

Visitors can look inside the historic party house owned by George and Caroline Newhall in the 1920s along beach.

Park north of gate; do not block gate off Hwy. 28.

SPOONER LAKE Easy | 1.8 miles RT Spooner Lake is a great, easy hike for any season with interpretive displays. At Spooner Lake State Park.

NORTH SHORE

PICNIC ROCK Moderate | 3.6 miles RT Just off the Tahoe Rim Trail, the expansive view from the top provides a panorama of both Lake Tahoe and the Martis Valley. A single track winds up, offering a gradual climb with no technical challenges, until reaching Picnic Rock, an old volcanic rock. Off Hwy. 267.

STATELINE LOOKOUT Easy | .5 miles RT This short hike offers superb views of Lake Tahoe.

A short, self-guided nature trail explains the history of the North Shore. Hwy. 28 in Crystal Bay.

Moderate | 2.2 miles RT A small alpine lake situated on the cusp of Desolation Wilderness, the hike is a popular entrance for hikers and equestrians to the back country and a spectacular trek towering over the pristine waters of Emerald Bay. Steady ascent of 850’ in less than 1 mile. Trailhead at Bayview Campground off Hwy. 89.

PAGE MEADOWS Easy-Moderate | 4-6 miles RT The hike to Page Meadows is a local favorite because of its easy access and beautiful scenery through forests to an expanse of several meadows. You can start the hike to Page Meadows from 64 Acres off Hwy. 89 along the Tahoe Rim Trail for a longer hike or from Ward Creek Boulevard off Hwy. 89.

RUBICON TRAIL & LIGHTHOUSE Easy-Moderate | .5-9 miles | No dogs Hike starts at Calawee Cove at D.L. Bliss State Park or Emerald Bay. Trail follows cliffs and coves along Lake Tahoe, nesting ospreys and eagles, short side trail to Rubicon Lighthouse, which is easy to access with small children.

BALANCING ROCK Easy | .5 miles A short, self-guided nature trail featuring Balancing Rock, an overlying rock of 130 tones balanced on a rock. At D.L. Bliss State Park.

SUGAR PINE POINT STATE PARK Easy | 1.5 miles RT The nature trail loops through the forest past an array of wildflowers and through several sections of dense slash bleached nearly white from years of sun exposure. There are great spots to relax on the beach below Ehrman Mansion.

ALPINE MEADOWS

FIVE LAKES Strenuous | 5 miles RT Five Lakes is a great hike inside Granite Chief Wilderness, with the first 1 mile+ a steady ascent with great views of Alpine Meadows. Trailhead 1.8 miles up Alpine Meadows Road from Hwy. 89 across from Deer Park Drive.

Dogs prohibited May 15-July 15.

OLYMPIC VALLEY

SHIRLEY CANYON & SHIRLEY LAKE

SOUTH SHORE

LOWER & UPPER ECHO LAKES Easy | 2.4-4.8 miles RT Lower and Upper Echo Lakes is a little-known paradise perched atop Echo Summit, 5 miles west of Meyers on Hwy. 50. The trailhead begins next to the dam. Once you reach Upper Echo Lake, 2.4 miles from the start, you’ll see a kiosk at a dock for a water taxi. You can take a taxi back or return the way you came, or continue into Desolation Wilderness.

The ride is a relaxing 20-minute tour through the channels connecting the two lakes. Taxi, cash only. (530) 659-7207.

WEST SHORE

CASCADE FALLS Moderate | 1.4 miles RT This boulder-strewn hike takes hikers to the waterfall descending from Desolation Wilderness into Cascade Lake. The falls are raging in the spring and are often a trickle by late summer. Near the end of the trail, walk up a large, flat boulder to the top of a hill where the trail can become confusing. Look for wooden posts marking the trail. Trailhead at Bayview Campground off Hwy. 89. Not recommended for small children or small dogs.

Easy-Strenuous | .5-5 miles RT This hike follows a creek as it passes by waterfalls and spectacular granite boulders along Shirley Creek. Park at the end of Squaw Peak Road. The first section that follows the creek is great for kids. As you climb, the trail may sometimes be hard to distinguish, so keep the creek on your right going up and on your left going down. Can continue a strenuous climb to High Camp and take the Aerial Tram to the valley (schedule at squawalpine.com).

SQUAW & EMIGRANT PEAKS Moderate | 3.4-4.4 miles RT Ride the Aerial Tram to High Camp, elev. 8,200’, and choose from a variety of trails (maps from Guest Services or squawalpine.com). Climb to the weathered buttresses atop Squaw Peak, visit the historic Watson Monument at Emigrant Peak or meander through the meadows covered with wildflowers, and enjoy the panoramic views afforded from Squaw’s spacious upper mountain. Tram ticket required. Hikes in the meadows good for small children.

TRUCKEE

GLACIER MEADOW LOOP

Moderate | 1 mile RT Quick hike to the top of a volcanic outcropping offers panoramic views of the area off Hwy. 89 south of Tahoe City.

Easy | .5 miles RT Short, self-guided nature loop with signs that explain how glacial action carved and polished the surface landscape. Take Interstate 80 W from Truckee to the Castle Peak/Boreal Ridge Road exit.

EAGLE FALLS & LAKE

MARTIS CREEK WILDLIFE AREA

EAGLE ROCK

Easy-Moderate | .1-3 miles RT Great views of Lake Tahoe & Emerald Bay. Falls 5-minute walk from parking lot. Steady ascent to Eagle Lake not recommended for young children. West end of picnic area across from Emerald Bay, Hwy. 89.

Courtesy Northstar

LAKE TAHOE

Moderate | 2.5 miles+ RT | No dogs Steep descent to Vikingsholm Castle. Can continue to Eagle & Emerald Points around the bay for easy hikes. Connects to Rubicon Trail (see below). Park on either side of rocky overlook in Emerald Bay on Hwy. 89. ADA access (530) 525-9529.

Easy | 4 miles RT Loop through Martis Creek meadow for a walk along the creek. Off Hwy. 267.

FOR FEMALE

MOUNTAIN BIKERS

Every Friday evening, female mountain bike riders are invited to an open clinic taught by women for women at Northstar California from 5 to 7 p.m. until Aug. 31. Pumps on Pedals is guided by the Specialized Bike Academy female coaches and offers discounted lift tickets and bike rentals. The group fosters a no-posturing zone and welcomes cross-country, endurance and downhill riders.

It is an open course intended for all ability levels, including moms improving their skills to be able to ride with their kids or women needing an exhilarating escape from city life. The evening starts at the base of the Big Springs Gondola at 5 p.m. and culminates in The Village for well-earned libations. Participants must have a bike lift ticket or bike season pass to participate. Pumps on Pedals bike lift tickets are $35; bike rentals are $30. Check in at 4:30 p.m. at the bike shop, which is next to the roller-skating rink in The Village. There are no reservations; walk ups only. | northstarcalifornia.com

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Trails and Tales

55+ Hiking Series

Resort at Squaw Creek Olympic Valley | Aug. 21, Aug. 22

Area Venues | Incline Village | Aug. 21

Hikers age 55 and older can visit different Tahoe locales as part of IVGID Senior Programs. Meet in Incline Village Recreation Center lobby. Bring water, lunch and wear appropriate clothing and shoes. 8:30 a.m.3 p.m. | yourtahoeplace.com

This 1.5 mile leisurely walk has wonderful information about the Tahoe ecosystem.

Learn about the history of the Olympic Valley, flora, fauna and Olympic Valley folklore.

11 a.m.-12 p.m. $10-$15 | (866) 791-7417, destinationhotels.com

Northern Nevada International Workday Pacos Ladies Ride Pacos Bike Shop | Truckee | Aug. 21

The Pacos Ladies Ride meets at the shop for a fun packed girl-powered mountain bike ride. There is nothing like joining a group of like-minded woman for an evening of exercise and crisp mountain air as the last few magical hours of daylight fade out. 5:30 p.m. | (530) 587-5561, pacosxc.com

Tahoe Meadows Workday Tahoe Meadows Trailhead Incline Village | Aug. 21

Join a fun day out on the trail to rebuild and maintain the trail out of Tahoe Meadows.

Meet at the Tahoe Meadows Trailhead on Mount Rose Highway and may walk several miles with tools to reach all the work sites.

9 a.m.-4 p.m. | tahoerimtrail.org

Van Sickle State Park Stateline | Aug. 22

Come out to work with the Northern NV International students. Come out and help maintain the trails. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. | tahoerimtrail.org

Summer Moonlight Hikes Incline Village Recreation Center Incline Village | Aug. 23

These mile-long, paved road hikes to the Crystal Bay lookout site, sponsored in collaboration with the National Forest Service, usually include a spectacular sunset and ensuing moonrise for seniors. Transportation included. Meet at Rec Center. 5 p.m. | (775) 832-1310, yourtahoeplace.com

Visit TheTahoeWeekly.com for more hiking trails to enjoy.

Click on Summer under the Out & About menu.

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Visit the Event Calendar at TheTahoeWeekly.com for a complete list of events.

Aug. 16-22, 2018

Horoscopes

FIRE

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FUN & GAMES

Puzzles

Michael O’Connor is an astrologer, counselor and life coach | SunStarAstrology.com

Leo (Jul 22-Aug 23)

The Leo Solar Eclipse obviously holds special importance for you. It could prove to manifest as a power cycle supporting you to take some measurable strides forward. Your focus will be strong and sharp.

The biggest danger is that you will try to take on too many projects thus intercepting this focus. The time is right to set some clear, short-term goals.

Aquarius (Jan 19-Feb 19)

Deciphering what you truly want and need in your most important relationships will be activated by this eclipse. The twist is that you may not even quite know. This is where a deeper process of reflection and/or seeking counsel may help. In the short term, you may be willing to accommodate situations but this could change if you realize that you are not truly getting your needs met.

Virgo (Aug 23-Sep 22)

Making diligent efforts behind the scenes is both likely and ideal now. This can include simply getting organized. It may not seem like the best time of the year for such activity, but our personal cycles do not necessarily align with the seasonal round.

This is a call to work now and play later. Preparation, organization and productivity will win the day for you.

Pisces (Feb 19-Mar 20)

A renewed thirst for knowledge and study has begun. This eclipse cycle will take it to the next deeper level yet. This trend could continue well into 2019. Yet, it begins now and engaging accordingly could prove especially important, necessary and/or rewarding. Do the work to access knowledge, gain information and deepen your insight so you can, in time, in turn, share them.

Libra (Sep 22-Oct 22)

The future beckons and your sights are set on it. At least you are probably not focused on the past or interested in repeating what has been, especially the past several years. The twist is that you have work to do which includes acknowledging your goals and getting determined to achieve them. For now, get clear on the difference between having dreams and dreaming.

Aries (Mar 21-Apr 20)

This Solar Eclipse in Leo will activate an urge to play and win and to be seen and celebrated. This implies taking a lead. But, as much as you may want to be noticed, you will be reticent to ask for the attention.

This is where the plot gets tricky. The key is to focus on creative expressions that both satisfy you and impress others. Maybe host a dinner party.

Scorpio (Oct 22-Nov 21)

This lunation cycle laced with solar eclipse energy will activate your public and professional life.

Positively, you will get the go-ahead to assume new levels of power and authority. At worst, you will feel exposed, overwhelmed and unqualified. But, these feelings may be reactions and may not actually be true. Intend to enjoy the spotlight and acknowledge your determination to do your best.

Taurus (Apr 20-May 21)

This charged New Moon cycle will activate thoughts, reflections, and actions linked to security.

To succeed, you will have to exercise an added measure of maturity and discipline. Be on the alert for criticism, cynicism and other negative-attentiongetters. Acknowledge and identify the full spectrum of what you feel you need and then link a deep sense of responsibility to realizing them.

Sagittarius (Nov 21-Dec 21)

One way to describe what may manifest as a consequence of this eclipse is a feeling of being lost in an amusement park. This implies conflicting thoughts and emotions. It may help to simply acknowledge that you are and by remaining calm you will find your way again. Remember that you are not alone and that you can make new friends and allies especially when you come from the heart.

What do you have that you no longer want and who has what you feel you need? Asking such questions could lead you to clear the clutter, get organized and make a list of who you can call for assistance. Sometimes the clutter implies perceptions and interpretations even more than possessions.

Knowing your limitations is implied in this plot.

This lunation cycle generally indicates a time of strength and ability for you. It does come within the context of a process of deep change occurring within, yet presents a window of opportunity. You could be a source of wisdom and sound counsel for others.

However, you will be happiest directing your focus to social activities and creative interests.

Cancer (Jun 21-Jul 22)

The time has come to take your investments and spending habits more seriously. Sometimes the balance between money invested, saved and wasted can be all out of proportion. This is a good time to look closer at these patterns. Sound investments could be linked to your health and/or paying more for enduring quality versus seeking sales…

Hocus Focus differences: 1. Hair is different, 2. Sleeve is shorter, 3. Handle is missing, 4. Curtain is different, 5. Comb is missing, 6. Soda can is missing.

Capricorn (Dec 21-Jan 19)

Gemini (May 21-Jun 21)

TV interview program on which the guests traumatize and confound people: “Faze the Nation.”

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THE ARTS

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Arts

& CULTURE

CREATIVE AWARENESS

EXPRESSIVE ARTIST

Jean Fournier S T O R Y B Y K AY L A A N D E R S O N

“I became involved as an artist, but I feel so passionate that Trails & Vistas is unique in the idea that you take a collective journey with a tribe to experience art and nature.”

–Jean Fournier

Who Will Listen?

By Jean Fournier

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ean Fournier believes she was fortunate to have parents who exposed her to arts and culture. Her mother was a dancer and her father was an engineer, both with a great appreciation for the outdoors. They met at Sugar Bowl Ski Resort, married and raised a family in Berkeley. The contrast between growing up in Berkeley in the 1960s and coming up to Tahoe in a station wagon with the forest and the freedom to wander has made her who she is today, she says. At Serene Lakes, Fournier would write poetry with a fountain pen on an old log and then watch it wash off with the rain.

“Back then it was a lot of wilderness, kids would just go out and daydream,” Fournier says.

She started dancing at the now-historical landmark Temple of Wings in Berkeley when she was 3 years old.

Temple of Wings was the home of Florence Treadwell Boynton, a friend of famed American dancer Isadora Duncan, who was inspired by ancient Greek sculpture and painting and is regarded as an innovator of modern dance. In the early 1900s, Boynton designed an open-air residence/dance studio in GrecoRoman style that mimicked Duncan’s panache. Boyton taught Berkeley children expressive dance. Fournier has fond memories of being a youngster dancing there, wearing billowing gowns and embracing a form of dance that was relatively new at the time.

When Fournier was in high school, a woman moved in next door and built a dance studio under her garage. The

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Only wise ones knew to rely on sounds to guide their lives the noises of habitat Shaping their thoughts, movements and actions

RIGHT: Integrating poetry and dance at Trails & Vistas

in 2009. | Scott Thompson,Trails and Vistas. LEFT: Jean Fournier in the role of the Poetry Fairy at Sand Harbor. | Courtesy Jean Fournier Trails and Vistas

woman was a champion jitterbugger and taught tap, ballet and creative movement.

It was at that time that Fournier knew she wanted to be a dance teacher, but also in a classroom. She moved to the Tahoe Sierra permanently in mid-1980, eventually taking a fulltime teaching job with the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District in 1992.

Fifteen years ago, Fournier went to a Trails & Vistas art hike and was blown away by the artistic expression represented in the Tahoe Sierra’s natural environment.

The next year, Fournier went from being a participant to a performer.

“Nancy [Tieken Lopez who founded Trails & Vistas] was brilliant in sitespecific work. She read my poem and then envisioned me in a meadow with a philharmonic harpist,” Fournier says.

Fournier wrote a poem relating movement to nature, physically showing how she would mimic the swaying of the trees and ocean waves. She performed a traditional dance from the Temple of Wings that was sometimes integrated with music and always with nature. Fournier also loves creating her costumes, often flowing ethereal gowns reminiscent of Isadora Duncan. She has often been a Trails & Vistas art hike guide, as well as a performer, leading groups through the forest to each art installation and performance in an intimate setting.

“You’re really a part of it. Some people

But we forget to vocalize to establish territory and circulate harmonies, contribute community tones

kind of keep back because they’re not used to being that close. You experience the arts differently in nature,” she says.

In Fournier’s performances, she aims to inspire some creative thinking on the part of the viewer.

“I became involved as an artist, but I feel so passionate that Trails & Vistas is unique in the idea that you take a collective journey with a tribe to experience art and nature.

I became a founding board member and love serving on it. This is an area where people value the outdoors and art.

It’s pretty special and stunningly different every year.”

The Trails & Vistas art hikes will be on Sept. 8 and 9 on Donner Summit. | trailsandvistas.org

We forget to hear the sonnance of water and orchestral content of insects, To listen for rhythms and the silences within them that create pauses like breaths in nature’s musical whir This morning I strain to hear the river fog evaporate and the warbler’s song that grows softer each season.

Aug. 16-22, 2018

Arts

THE

Jukebox International Film Festival Carson City Community Center | Carson City Aug. 23-24

Jukebox International Film Festival features top-notch films about music, musicians, musical styles, venues and music videos. 8 a.m.9 p.m. | (775) 830-7939, eventbrite.com

“Mountain Picassos” ON EXHIBIT

Art of the Greater West Nevada Museum of Art | Reno | Aug. 16-Oct. 26 The artworks encourage conversations surrounding indigenous cultural practices such as mark-making and mapping; visual representations of settlement and expansion; and depictions of changes to the landscape brought about by colliding cultures. 10 a.m. | (775) 329-3333, nevadaart.org

Basque tree carvings, or arborglyphs, have long been of interest to historians, Basque scholars, foresters and hikers. Carved by Basque sheepherders tending their flocks across the Great Basin, the carvings are at the crossroads where art, culture and nature come together.

The carvings are the subject of the exhibit, “Mountain Picassos: Basque Arborglyphs of the Great Basin,” at the Nevada Arts Council’s OXS Gallery in Carson City open until Sept. 7.

The exhibit is based on the book of the same name by Reno’s Jean and Phillip Earl.

For more than half a century, the Earls used clues from old maps, letters and books to hunt for and document “Mountain Picassos” – distinctive figures carved into aspen trees.

Bloom constrasts in environments Nevada Museum of Art | Reno | Aug. 16-Dec. 30

“Portrait with Txapel (Beret) from Genoa Peak” Jean Moore Earl & Phillip I. Earl rubbing | OXS Gallery Dealers of Dreams

Pacific Fine Arts

Tahoe Maritime Museum | Tahoe City Aug. 16-Jan. 6

Boatworks Mall | Tahoe City | Aug. 17-19

So popular was the Lake among boaters that many local marinas partnered with some of the most prestigious builders in the country in order to satisfy the needs of the Tahoe boating community. This exhibition explores the special relationship between boats, buyers and Tahoe, and the people that brought them together. | tahoemaritimemuseum.org

These figures, along with the names, dates, and sayings were carved in the early to mid-20th Century. Jean evolved a unique method of preserving the carvings, using canvas and artists’ wax to create rubbings – two-dimensional representations of the carvings that are works of art themselves.

“Portrait Collective” call to artists

The Earls have assembled more than 130 wax-on-muslin rubbings from the carvings. | nvculture.org

This exhibits presents the stories of monsters that have a significant history, passed down from indigenous peoples, medieval travelers or reputable explorers. Along the way, the museum invites visitors to join us in the search for Lake Tahoe’s own monster, Tahoe Tessie. | tahoemaritimemuseum.org

North Tahoe Arts | Tahoe City | Aug. 16-24

North Tahoe Arts is now excepting portrait submissions through Aug. 24 for its upcoming exhibit “Portrait Collective.” | northtahoearts.com

The T-Files: the Search for Tessie Tahoe Maritime Museum | Tahoe City Aug. 16-Jan. 6

1960 Winter Olympics Exhibit Community Recreation Center | Truckee | Aug. 16-Sept. 30

The Truckee Public Arts Commission is hosting a new exhibit that displays a variety of art and artifacts from the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Olympics. The display includes rarely seen photography of the 1960 Winter Olympics and other memorabilia including flags, uniforms, banners, pins, publications and more are on display. Free | (530) 587-2757, chamber.truckee.com

Andy Skaff exhibit Wolfdale’s | Tahoe City | Aug. 16-Dec. 31

Andy Skaff’s love of the West provides the inspiration for his light-filled, vibrant landscapes and cityscapes. His work ranges from classic, impressionist paintings to abstract distillations of familiar subjects. | askaff.com

Theses Exhibit Sierra Nevada College Incline Village | Aug.16-31

Curated by Ashley Stull Meyers Featuring work by Karen Krolak, Sarah Lillegard, Chelsea Mandell and Sam Shear. | sierranevada.edu

Visual Oasis: Creative Growth CCAI Courthouse Gallery | Carson City Aug. 16-Sept. 27

The Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI] presents its group show, “Visual Oasis: Works from Creative Growth.” The exhibit includes mixed media, 3-D art and 2-D works. Creative Growth Art Center has played a significant role in increasing public interest in the artistic capabilities and achievements of people with disabilities. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Free | arts-initiative.org

Artist to You Festivals “Coexisting” exhibit North Tahoe Arts Center | Tahoe City Aug. 16-Sept. 7

North Tahoe Arts presents “Coexisting.”

Now, more than ever, it is the time to coexist with Mother Earth. “Coexisting” documents and addresses environmental issues and offers a solution to inform, challenge and take action. | northtahoearts.com

THE ARTS

Round Hill Square | Zephyr Cove Aug. 17-19

Explore the work of Tahoe artisans throughout the summer. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. | artisttoyoufestivals.com

Pacific Fine Arts Festival features paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, ceramics, graphics, jewelry and arts and crafts.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. | pacificfinearts.com

Collage Workshop North Tahoe Arts | Tahoe City | Aug. 18-19

In this two-day workshop with collage artist Janice Pluma, participants will learn how to create unique collage elements, and then use principles of design to create a finished work of art. $20 materials fee. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $210$235 | (530) 581-2787, northtahoearts.com

Imaginations Family Art Day Retreat St. Mary’s Art Center | Virginia City | Aug. 18

Create monoprints using different methods, including on a professional etching press with instructor Suellen Turman. Materials and lunch provided. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $40-$50 | (775) 8477774, stmarysartcenter.org

Jennifer McEuen Solo Art Exhibit, Devotion Benko Art Gallery | South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 18

Featuring the collected works of Jennifer McEuen. “Devotion” is expressed through McEuen’s paintings, which delve into expanded perceptions with a strong grounding in realism. McEuen blends psychedelic art with realistic rendering and mythological themes.

5-10 p.m. Free | (530) 600-3264, facebook.com

Quilters Without Borders Nevada Fine Arts | Reno | Aug. 20

Quilters without Boundries was started by four friends who wanted to explore the making of art quilts with non-traditional products and techniques. Meets the third Monday.

1-3 p.m. $5 | nvfinearts.com

Bloom is an internet-based Earthwork that transforms data into an experience of playfulness and unpredictability. A seismograph measures the Hayward Fault’s movements and the data sets are captured and run through a computer program designed by the artists.

10 a.m. | (775) 329-3333, nevadaart.org

Celebrating Israel’s 70th Anniversary Nevada Museum of Art | Reno | Aug. 16-Oct. 14 Te Nevada Museum of Art presents exhibitions by Israeli artists Michal Rovner and Tal Shochat. These contemporary artists create work grounded in the history of photography, while delivering a fresh and independent viewpoint to the dialogue surrounding art and environment. | nevadaart.org

Hans Meyer-Kassel: Artist of Nevada Nevada Museum of Art | Reno | Aug. 16-Sept. 2 This exhibition includes more than 50 drawings, pastels and oil paintings drawn from private and institutional collections. Particular emphasis is placed on Meyer-Kassel’s romance with Nevada. 10 a.m. | (775) 329-3333, nevadaart.org

History of Transportation: A Mural Study

by Helen Lundeberg Nevada Museum of Art | Reno | Aug. 16-Jan. 6

American artist Helen Lundeberg’s “History of Transportation” traces a progression of labor from the Native American era to the dawn of the airline industry in the 1940s. On view through Jan. 6, 2019. 10 a.m. | (775) 329-3333, nevadaart.org

James Turrell: Roden Crater Nevada Museum of Art | Reno | Aug. 16-Dec. 14

James Turrell is an artist whose media are light and space, and for the last 40 years he has been carefully sculpting the cinder cone of an extinct volcano near Flagstaff into one of the world’s largest and most-important land based sculptures. Turrell first studied psychology and mathematics before earning a Masters of Fine Arts degree in 1966. 10 a.m. | (775) 329-3333, nevadaart.org

Knitting Group Atelier | Truckee | Aug. 21-Dec. 31

The group is open to all knitters, crocheters, loom artists every Tuesday. whatever your thread, you are welcome. This is a not a class, it’s a group intended for individuals who enjoy the company of other yarn artists. Bring a project or start a new one. 4-6 p.m. Free | (530) 386-2700, ateliertruckee.com

Judith Belzer: The Panama Project Nevada Museum of Art | Reno | Aug. 16-Nov. 11 Painter and Guggenheim Fellow Judith Belzer visited the recently expanded Panama Canal Zone in 2015. Spending time both in Panama City and aboard a tugboat in the canal, her paintings deal with what she calls a “landscape of the Anthropocene.” 10 a.m. | (775) 3293333, nevadaart.org

High Sierra Writers Barnes & Noble Bookstore | Reno | Aug. 22-Dec. 26 Join the High Sierra Writers every Wednesday. All genres. Bring your work. Both get and give critique. 7 p.m. Free | (775) 826-8882, highsierrawriters.org

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FEATURE

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SIERRA STORIES

BY MARK McLAUGHLIN

J edediah Smith | A d v e n t u r e s o f a M o u n t a i n M a n about 180 men. Of those hired, 94 were killed by Indians. That doesn’t include the men who died from grizzly bear attacks, blizzards, hypothermia or drowning. For these bold frontiersmen, death lurked behind every hill, tree and boulder.

Smith was the leader of the 1824 group and the one who noticed that stream water had started flowing west, not east, indicating the Continental Divide. Smith was accompanied by Thomas “Broken Hand” Fitzpatrick, Joseph Walker and James Clyman, some of the most famous names in western lore. Just eight years later, Captain Benjamin Bonneville would lead 110 men with 20 wagons over South Pass, thereby establishing a route that would become the Oregon, California and Mormon trails.

Jedediah Smith was the leader of the 1824 group and the one who noticed that stream water had started flowing west, not east, indicating the Continental Divide.

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early 200 years ago in 1824, a small contingent of American mountain men blazed a trail across the Continental Divide and through the formidable Rocky Mountains. Most importantly, unlike Donner Pass on the yet-to-be-established California Trail, the route posed no great physical or technical challenge for families encumbered with loaded farm wagons.

In the following decades, South Pass, in Wyoming, became the portal for more than 500,000 overland emigrants as they migrated west to the Pacific Coast.

Historians have long held that 19th Century beaver trappers and fur traders contributed little significant geographical knowledge or cartography of the Rocky

Mountains and western North America during the early decades of the 1800s.

Their reasoning is incorrect. Little formal knowledge may have reached government officials, but the fur trappers’ insight was published in frontier newspapers and shared in conversations at riverfront taverns in St. Louis. Valuable information about the landscape, climate and Indian danger along westbound trails was no secret to early settlers on the western American frontier.

The life of a 19th-Century mountain man was exciting, but violent and usually brief. One fur-trading partnership led by Jedediah Strong Smith reported that over a six-year period his company employed

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Very few of the hundreds of trappers and fur traders that roamed the West during the 1820s and early 1830s kept a journal of their experiences. But those who did, men such as Zenas Leonard, Clyman and Jedediah Smith, provided riveting first-hand accounts of the challenges, privations and close calls that accompanied their adventures.

Smith was the most intrepid and fearless of all the mountain men. Exploration was not a primary purpose with him, but his trapping and trading business led him to see more of the west than any man of his time. Only Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s famed “Corps of Discovery” journey to the Pacific Ocean eclipsed Smith’s achievements. Lewis and Clark were outfitted and funded by the United States government and a force of men and equipment were provided for them.

In contrast, Smith had to pay his own way with beaver pelts. While information from the Lewis and Clark expedition was published and widely disseminated, Smith’s untimely death left gaps in his journals and an unfinished map.

Between the years 1822 and 1831, Smith surmounted vast deserts, towering mountain ranges and hostile Indian attacks to probe the expansive wilderness. He kept notes, sketched maps and gained a unique knowledge of the unexplored Western landscape. Smith was the first to reach California overland from the American frontier, which made him the first white man to cross what would become the states of Utah and Nevada. He was also the first Anglo to cross the Sierra Nevada, the first to travel the length and width of the Great Basin and the first to journey up the California coast to Oregon. And he did it all from age 23 to 32.

He was born in New York in 1799; his family moved west to Erie County, Penn.

Later a close family friend of the Smiths gave the young Jedediah a copy of the Lewis and Clark expedition journal that had been published to wide acclaim. The book opened the impressionable teenager to a love a nature and adventure. Legend has it that Smith carried that journal with him for the rest of his life.

Smith was tall and lean with blue eyes.

A practicing Methodist, he carried a Bible with him; he was mild mannered, quiet and unassuming, the rare trapper who never used profanity, tobacco and partook of wine or brandy only sparingly on formal occasions. On the other hand, he endured physical privations with an indifference that elevated him above his colleagues, all capable men. Smith could handle personal suffering and exhibited endurance beyond the point when other men died. He displayed a rare coolness and courage under attack and gunfire, which encouraged naturally independent trappers to respect his decisions and leadership. It was said that he had the energy and drive of three men.

Smith was 22 years old when he first joined pioneering fur trader William Ashley as a raw recruit on an excursion up the Missouri River to trap beavers for their valuable pelts. Indicative of his exceptional abilities, within a year Smith was promoted to captain of an Ashley trapping party. Two years later he was Ashley’s partner and in one more year he was a senior partner in the firm that dominated the mountain fur trade.

Lessons in survival came fast. In 1824, Smith was nearly killed by a grizzly bear in the Yellowstone country. The grizzly mauled Smith’s head, ripping his scalp, breaking six ribs and tearing off one ear.

The attack was brief but vicious. After stitching the wounds as best he could, fellow trapper Clyman told Smith that there was nothing he could do for his severed ear. Smith insisted Clyman sew it back on.

In his journal, Clyman wrote, “I put my needle through and through and over and over, laying the lacerated parts together as nice as I could with my hands.” From then on Smith wore his hair long to hide the scars and disfigurement to his head.

Smith survived the three worst Indian attacks of the American fur trade. He was there for the devastating Mojave Desert clash of 1827, the 1828 battle against the Arikara where 13 of his men died and the Umpqua massacre of 1828 in Oregon where at least 40 men were killed around him. Tragically, Smith died a lonely death at the age of 32 on the Santa Fe Trail under the lances of the Comanches.  Tahoe historian Mark McLaughlin is a nationally published author and professional speaker. His award-winning books are available at local stores or at thestormking.com. You may reach him at mark@thestormking.com. Check out his blog at tahoenuggets.com or read more at TheTahoeWeekly.com. Click on History under the Explore Tahoe tab.

LIVE MUSIC, SHOWS & NIGHTLIFE

MUSIC SCENE

Music SCENE Aug. 16-22, 2018

Backcountry Bikes and Bluegrass AT L O S T T R A I L L O D G E STORY & PHOTOS BY SEAN McALINDIN

Lost Trail Front Porch Hot Mamas and High Strung | Aug. 18 | 12:30 to 3 p.m. & The Reno Ceilidh Band | Sept. 8 | 12:30 to 3 p.m.

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Reonne Haslett, Carol Meals and Mary Padua Fisher play traditional ukulele tunes for a very relaxed crowd.

“ This place is special because it allows people to come together in a secluded, intimate environment.”

–Lindsey Nieman on stage. I almost felt as if I’d been transported back to simpler time gone by.

Through the backstage door beyond the musicians is the lodge itself, built two decades ago by the unknowable David Robertson.

“It was a Home Depot kit,” he says sarcastically before running away through the trees beyond a question’s reach.

Inside, the rooms are full of antique

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s I meandered down the dusty road, I slowly, almost imperceptibly, heard string music floating between the trees in the distance. Was it just my imagination playing forest tricks on me again? Or were the sprites and pixies singing lullabies to the midsummer sky?

The beckoning jangle drifted in out of my perception, yet I couldn’t tell from which way was it was coming. A little further up the road, civilization appeared in the form of a rugged, back-country lodge rising from the dense woods.

As I passed the driveway, two mountain bikers zoomed by just back from their morning ride up Snagglepuss, dirty smiles pasted on their faces like little kids up to no good.

Around the corner of Lost Trail Lodge, I found around 60 local folks hanging out underneath the canopy listening to a tiedyed group of bearded gray hairs picking out an old Jerry Garcia tune on various acoustic instruments. Even though it wasn’t the long lost Sierra nymphs of whom I’d dreamt, it could’ve been; the magic of music belonged there just so.

Soon a trio of women took the stage with ukuleles in their hands. You could feel the life stories emanate between them as they sang their simple versions of classic Americana tunes, a soft, cool breeze fluttering through the trees beneath a wispy sky of blue.

The audience nibbled on fresh watermelon and sipped on beers as their children wandered around the wood-chipped yard, clambering on fallen logs and searching for nebulous insects. The shade of pine and fir offered a nice respite from the high heat of Tahoe summer.

The sound of soft, intimate chatter and honest conversation between kinfolk wafted between the heart-plucked tones

knickknacks ranging from old area maps and leather-bound snowshoes to oil lanterns and wooden skis. Upstairs in the kitchen, I find a quiet moment to speak with the lodge’s caretakers, Tony and Lindsey Nieman.

They’ve lived out here for the past eight years while raising their daughter Kiely, 12, and son, Shepard, 4. The first season they moved in was during the record winter of 2010-11. Robertson, who is Lindsey’s father, had picked a good year to head to Hawaii for the season.

“By the time he got back, we were still buried,” says Tony with a knowing smile to his wife. “The good thing was we liked it here and, more importantly, we still liked each other, so we stayed. We figured if we could make it through that winter, then we’ve got this nailed.”

The couple now earns a living renting the lodge to back-country skiers, Pacific Crest Trail through-hikers, wedding celebrants and others for special events.

While they held several bluegrass gatherings early in their tenure, they had decided to hold off after seeing the impact it was having on the surrounding forest. One time nearly 300 folks made the trek up the rocky, four-wheel-drive Cold Stream Road to the Pacific Union train tracks. They all had to hike another half mile to reach the lodge.

“At one point, it seemed like it had outgrown us,” says Tony. “But as the years went by, people kept asking about it.”

This summer the lodge is hosting three Backcountry Bikes and Bluegrass events as fundraisers. The first was on July 21. Aug. 18 will feature the Lost Trail Front Porch Hot Mamas and High Strung and will benefit Friends of Yogi Bear. The event on Sept. 8 will feature The Reno Ceilidh Band and will benefit Tahoe Nordic Search and Rescue. At 11 a.m. there’s a bike ride from the summer parking lot. From 12:30 to 3 p.m., there’s free music at the lodge; bring a picnic basket. They will be asking for donations for the local organizations.

“We decided it was time to bring it back because it makes people’s hearts happy,” says Lindsey. “This place is special because it allows people to come together in a secluded, intimate environment.”

“When you hike out here and earn it, especially in the winter, this is the holy grail,” says Tony. “There’s a warm bed, a home-cooked meal and a hearty fire burning. There’s no phone reception so most people leave it in the car. Even in Tahoe, it’s hard to really get away from it all these days. People are surprised this is here. And it requires just the right amount of effort.” | (530) 320-9268, losttraillodge.com 

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AUG. 16-23, 2018

AUGUST 16 | THURSDAY

Shakespeare’s Towering Tragedy

By William Shakespeare

Off Broadway’s Groovy Retro-Hit Revue

Created by Larry Gallagher

Through August 26

Sand Harbor at Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park Monday Night Showcase (Aug. 20): Mindi Abair & The Boneshakers

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Cirque Paris Eldorado Resort Casino, Reno, 12 a.m.

Live at Lakeview Lakeview Commons, South Lake Tahoe 4:30-8:30 p.m.

Truckee Thursdays Downtown Truckee, Truckee, 5-8:30 p.m.

Tuck Wilson Steamers, Kings Beach, 6-8:30 p.m.

DJ Trivia MidTown Wine Bar, Reno, 7 p.m.

Magic Fusion Starring Eric Buss The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 7-8:15 p.m.

Jonathon “JB” Barton Carson Valley Inn, Minden, 7 p.m.

Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival Sand Harbor State Park, Incline Village, 7:30 p.m.

Stuttering John Melendez Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Thirsty Thursday W/DJ Bobby G! Polo Lounge, Reno, 8 p.m.

Solid Gold Soul Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, Stateline, 8 p.m.

Acoustic Wonderland Sessions Paddy & Irene’s Irish Pub, Sparks, 8 p.m.

Haunted Summer Moody’s Bistro, Bar & Beats, Truckee, 8-11 p.m.

Karaoke The Pointe, Reno, 8:30 p.m.

Karaoke 5 Star Saloon, Reno, 9 p.m.

Magic Fusion Starring Eric Buss The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 9-10:15 p.m.

An Evening At the Improv Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, 9 p.m.

LEX Unplugged Lex Nightclub, Reno, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

Jazz & Beyond Various venues, Carson City.

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Chris Costa Tahoe Biltmore Lodge & Casino, Crystal Bay, 12 a.m.

Cirque Paris Eldorado Resort Casino, Reno, 12 a.m.

Summer Music Series High Camp Pool, Olympic Valley, 12-3 p.m.

Comedy Happy Hour Lex Nightclub, Reno, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

Guitarist Jack Di Carlo Gold Hill Hotel, Gold Hill, 5:30-8 p.m.

Heavenly Village Concert Series Shops at Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 5:30 p.m.

Music on the Beach Kings Beach State Recreation Area, Kings Beach, 6-8:30 p.m.

Live Music: Deception Carson City, 6:30-10:30 p.m.

Steve Miller Band with Peter Frampton Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys, Stateline, 7 p.m.

Latin Dance Social Peppermill Casino, Reno, 7 p.m.

Open Mic Night Art Truckee, Truckee, 7-10 p.m.

Brother Dan Palmer Washoe Camp Saloon, New Washoe City, 7 p.m.

Hot Jersey Nights Harrah’s, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Legally Blonde - The Musical Bartley Ranch Regional Park, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival Sand Harbor State Park, Incline Village, 7:30 p.m.

Stuttering John Melendez Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Steel Rockin’ Karaoke Ponderosa Saloon, Virginia City, 8 p.m.

Phillip Phillips & Gavin Degraw Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 8-10:30 p.m.

Solid Gold Soul Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, Stateline, 8 p.m.

Live music Moody’s Bistro, Bar & Beats, Truckee, 8-11:55 p.m.

Karaoke The Pointe, Reno, 8:30 p.m.

Haunted Summer Moody’s Bistro, Bar & Beats, Truckee, 8:30-11:30 p.m.

Live Music Auld Dubliner, Olympic Valley, 8:30 p.m.

Karaoke Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, Sparks, 9 p.m.

Guest DJs St James Infirmary, Reno, 9 p.m.

Rock-N-Roll Experience Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 9 p.m.

Rebekah Chase Band Boomtown Casino, Verdi, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

An Evening At the Improv Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, 9 p.m.

Arizona Jones Bar of America, Truckee, 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Stuttering John Melendez Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 9:30 p.m.

DJ Roni V Eldorado Resort Casino, Reno, 10 p.m.

Dance party 5 Star Saloon, Reno, 10 p.m.

The Beat The Bluebird, Reno, 10 p.m.

Soul Funk Disco The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 10 p.m.

DJ Show Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Stateline, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

Chris Lake ft. Roger That! and Friends The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

Wormhole Tahoe Crystal Bay Casino, Crystal Bay, 10 p.m.

Reno Greek Festival St. Anthony’s Greek Church, Reno.

Jazz & Beyond Various venues, Carson City.

AUGUST 18 | SATURDAY Chris Costa Tahoe Biltmore Lodge & Casino, Crystal Bay, 12 a.m.

Cirque Paris Eldorado Resort Casino, Reno, 12 a.m.

Backcountry Bikes and Bluegrass Lost Trail Lodge, Truckee, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

The Starliters Boomtown Casino, Verdi, 5-9 p.m.

Heavenly Village Concert Series Shops at Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe, 5:30 p.m.

Burlesque Vaudeville Delight Redlight Historic Bunk Hotel & Speakeasy, Truckee, 6-8 p.m.

Magic Fusion The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 7-8:15 p.m.

BB King’s Blues Band MontBleu Resort, Stateline, 7 p.m.

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AUGUST 19 | SUNDAY Cirque Paris Eldorado Resort Casino, Reno, 12 a.m.

Sunday Gospel Brunch The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 12-3:30 p.m.

Concerts at Commons Commons Beach, Tahoe City, 4 p.m.

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THE MULTI-ETHNIC Portland band Nahko and Medicine for the People have been transporting audiences to a higher plane for the past six years and their vibration is only getting stronger.

The 17-year-old indigenous rapper and activist Xuihtezcatl, who protested with Nahko Bear at Standing Rock will open.

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ALTERNATIVE WORLD

Poor Man’s Whiskey Commons Beach, Tahoe City, 4-7 p.m.

Magic Fusion The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 4:30-5:45 p.m.

P’Opera! Walks the Red Carpet Napa Sonoma Grocery Company, Reno, 5-6:30 p.m.

Jamie Rollins Boomtown Casino, Verdi, 6-10 p.m.

Chris Costa Polo Lounge, Reno, 7 p.m.

Magic Fusion The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 7-8:15 p.m.

Smooth Jazz Sunday with Bob Irons Fine Vines, Reno, 7 p.m.

The Victor Wooten Trio Cargo at Whitney Peak Hotel, Reno, 7-11:30 p.m.

P’Opera! Walks the Red Carpet Napa Sonoma Grocery Company, Reno, 7:30-9 p.m.

Legally Blonde - The Musical Bartley Ranch Regional Park, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival Sand Harbor State Park, Incline Village, 7:30 p.m.

Stuttering John Melendez Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Open Mic Comedy The Library, Reno, 8 p.m.

Solid Gold Soul Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, Stateline, 8 p.m.

Canyon White The Hangar Bar, Reno, 8-11 p.m.

CHARLIE PUTH

Rock-N-Roll Experience Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 9 p.m.

Reno Greek Festival St. Anthony’s Greek Church, Reno Jazz & Beyond Various venues, Carson City

AUGUST 20 | MONDAY Song Group Tahoe Truckee School of Music, Truckee, 5:30-6:45 p.m.

Magic Fusion starring Chipper Lowell The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 7-8:15 p.m.

Legally Blonde - The Musical Bartley Ranch Regional Park, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Mindi Abair & The Boneshakers Sand Harbor State Park, Incline Village, 7:30 p.m.

Open Mic Whiskey Dicks, South Lake Tahoe, 9 p.m.

Live Band Karaoke Eldorado Resort Casino, Reno, 10 p.m.

Jimmy Fontaine

Dennis Johnson & The Mississippi Ramblers Brewery Arts Center, Carson City, 7 p.m.

Chautauqua Lake Tahoe Historical Musuem, South Lake Tahoe, 7 p.m.

Hot Jersey Nights Harrah’s, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Legally Blonde - The Musical Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Legally Blonde - The Musical Bartley Ranch Regional Park, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Sierra Songs Music at The Yuba Theatre Loyalton, 7:30 p.m.

Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival Sand Harbor State Park, Incline Village, 7:30 p.m.

Stuttering John Melendez Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Solid Gold Soul Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, Stateline, 8 p.m.

The Expendables Hard Rock Hotel & Casino - Vinyl, Stateline, 8 p.m.

Karaoke The Pointe, Reno, 8:30 p.m.

Haunted Summer Moody’s Bistro, Bar & Beats, Truckee, 8:30-11:30 p.m.

Live Music Auld Dubliner, Olympic Valley, 8:30 p.m.

An Evening At the Improv Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, 8:30 p.m.

Karaoke Spiro’s Sports Bar & Grille, Sparks, 9 p.m.

Saturday Dance Party St James Infirmary, Reno, 9 p.m.

Seduction Saturdays Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 9 p.m.

Magic Fusion The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 9-10:15 p.m.

Saturday Night Karaoke Farah & Sons, Sparks, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Rock-N-Roll Experience Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 9 p.m.

Burlesque Vaudeville Delight Redlight Historic Bunk Hotel & Speakeasy, Truckee, 9-11 p.m.

Deep House Lounge The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 9:30 p.m.-2 a.m.

Arizona Jones Bar of America, Truckee, 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Stuttering John Melendez Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 9:30 p.m.

DJ Roni V Eldorado Resort Casino, Reno, 10 p.m.

Dance party 5 Star Saloon, Reno, 10 p.m.

DJ Show Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Stateline, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

An Evening At the Improv Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, 10:30 p.m.

Reno Greek Festival St. Anthony’s Greek Church, Reno.

Levitt AMP Summer Music Series Brewery Arts Center, Carson City.

Jazz & Beyond Various venues, Carson City.

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Aug. 18 | 7 p.m.

Harvey’s Lake Tahoe | Stateline, Nev. IF YOUR 12-YEAR-OLD daughter can’t wait for this concert with modern heartthrob Charlie Puth, don’t worry; you are not alone. “True Grit” actorturned-singer Hailee Steinfeld will open. | caesars.com/harveys-tahoe

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Aug. 17 | 6 p.m.

Harvey’s Lake Tahoe | Stateline, Nev. THE ORIGINAL JOKER Steve Miller brings his vast catalogue of 1970s hits to South Lake. Add the unparalleled Peter Frampton to the mix and you’ve surely got a night to remember. | caesars.com/ harveys-tahoe

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Cirque Paris Eldorado Resort Casino, Reno, 12 a.m.

Lake Tahoe Music Festival Tahoe Maritime Museum, Tahoe City, 4-6 p.m.

Summer Concert Series PJ’s at Gray’s Crossing, Truckee, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Bluesdays Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, Olympic Valley, 6-8:30 p.m.

Jonathan Barton Boomtown Casino, Verdi, 6 p.m.

Canyon Jam/Open Mic Living the Good Life, Carson City, 6:30 p.m.

Traditional Irish Session Ceol Irish Pub, Reno, 7 p.m.

Magic Fusion The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 7-8:15 p.m.

Gunsafe, John Underwood, Josiah Knight Shea’s Tavern, Reno, 7-11:30 p.m.

Legally Blonde - The Musical Bartley Ranch Regional Park, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival Sand Harbor State Park, Incline Village, 7:30 p.m.

Brian McKim Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Buddy Emmer and guest Harrah’s Lake Tahoe, Stateline, 8 p.m.

Comedy Night The Jungle, Reno, 9 p.m.

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Aug. 16-18 | 8 p.m.

Moody’s Bistro, Bar & Beats | Truckee LOS ANGELES SHOE GAZERS, Haunted Summer, have been wooing fans around the world since their 2017 release “Spirit Guides” provided a modern take of fuzz-pedal psychedelia. | moodysbistro.com 26

Cirque Paris Eldorado Resort Casino, Reno, 12 a.m.

Mr. Tahoe Cruise “Sierra Cloud”, Incline Village, 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Raybob and the Dudes Revive Coffee & Wine, South Lake Tahoe, 4-7 p.m.

Lake Tahoe Music Festival West Shore Cafe, Homewood, 5-7 p.m.

Music in the Park - Mark Mackay Truckee River Regional Park, Truckee, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Magic Fusion starring Robert Hall The Loft, South Lake Tahoe, 7-8:15 p.m.

Open Mic Red Dog Saloon, Virginia City, 7 p.m.

Legally Blonde - The Musical Bartley Ranch Regional Park, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival Sand Harbor State Park, Incline Village, 7:30 p.m.

Brian McKim Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday Night Jam Paddy & Irene’s Irish Pub, Sparks, 8 p.m.

Karaoke 5 Star Saloon, Reno, 9 p.m.

An Evening At the Improv Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, 9 p.m.

AUGUST 23 | THURSDAY Cirque Paris Eldorado Resort Casino, Reno, 12 a.m.

Live at Lakeview Lakeview Commons, South Lake Tahoe, 4:30-8:30 p.m.

Truckee Thursdays Downtown Truckee, Truckee, 5-8:30 p.m.

Lake Tahoe Music Festival Sugar Pine Point State Park, Tahoma, 5-7 p.m.

Tuck Wilson Steamers, Kings Beach, 6-8:30 p.m.

DJ Trivia MidTown Wine Bar, Reno, 7 p.m.

Legally Blonde - The Musical Bartley Ranch Regional Park, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival Sand Harbor State Park, Incline Village, 7:30 p.m.

Bobby Collins Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, 7:30 p.m.

Acoustic Wonderland Sessions Paddy & Irene’s Irish Pub, Sparks, 8 p.m.

Karaoke The Pointe, Reno, 8:30 p.m.

Karaoke 5 Star Saloon, Reno, 9 p.m.

LEX Unplugged Lex Nightclub, Reno, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

SAM

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BLUE-EYED SOUL

Aug. 16 | 5 p.m.

Truckee Thursdays | Downtown Truckee AS ONE OF TAHOE’S most versatile and productive local musicians, Sam Ravenna brings his irreplaceable style of R&B, jazz and free-form rock to the beer garden at Donner Pass Road. | truckeethursdays.com

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Aug. 19 | 8 p.m.

Cargo Concert Hall | Reno, Nev. AS ONE OF THE premier bassists of his generation, Victor Wooten of The Flecktones always brings something exceptional to share when he comes to town. | cargoreno.com

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Village Wine Walk

The Shops at Heavenly present the Village Wine Walk on Aug. 23 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.

For a $20 donation, participants can sample wine from Lodi Wine Country, a region that is emerging as one of California’s most exciting wine destinations. There will also be food specials to enjoy and chances to win prizes at every location visited. Wine Walk donations will benefit Live Violence Free of South Lake Tahoe, committed to promoting a violence-free community through education and advocacy. | theshopsatheavenly.com

Food Hub

ow does a local businessowner remain relevant through decades of cultural, environmental and political change? By always listening to his customers, of course.

“We see ourselves as a small market that caters to the locals,” says Jon McElroy, owner of Grass Roots Natural Foods Market in South Lake Tahoe.

Grass Roots first opened in 1973 in a small blue building on Dunlop Street by the intersection of State Route 89 and U.S. Route 50. At the time, it was the only market in the region that offered 100 percent organic produce, a wide selection of supplements, a bulk food aisle and a variety of products that catered to health.

In 1978, McElroy was a recent highschool graduate looking for something to do. Forty years later, he’s still in the aisles doing what he loves.

“ Back when I got into it,

FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: Owner John McElroy is all smiles four decades into his journey of providing healthy alternatives to the South Lake community; A fine selection of organic cheese on display; Fresh organic produces abounds.

health food was a fringe thing … Now it’s almost to the tipping point where it’s becoming mainstream.”

–Jon McElroy

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Tahoe Food Hub has launched the Make the Move fund drive to raise $30,000 by Sept.

30 to fund its move to a new warehouse at the Truckee Tahoe Airport. The Make the Move campaign goal to raise $160,000 through donations, grants and crowdfunding.

The move will help Tahoe Food Hub increase its capacity to distribute local food around the region. With additional space, Tahoe Food Hub will be able to develop an online store for consumers to customize local food boxes; expand the Farm Shop to a more centralized facility with more products; and move a larger volume of food to better serve our schools, hospitals and hunger relief agencies. | Donate tahoefoodhub.org

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“When I started working here, I was interested in taking care of my health,” he says. “I was a customer first. They had an opening. It was a fun place to work. As time went by, I learned more and more.”

It was 1985 when the opportunity to become the owner presented itself.

“I was in my mid-20s with no business training, but it was a field I was interested in,” he says. “They wanted to sell and I’m still learning to this day.”

In 2012, McElroy moved into his expanded current space up the street, which used to be a Blockbuster. As technology

has changed making video cassettes and DVDs obsolete, a steadily increasing public interest in holistic health has been slowly passing up processed foods.

“Back when I got into it, health food was a fringe thing,” says McElroy. “There was an alternative crowd, but most people just ate a normal American diet. A small percentage of people even knew what organic was. Now it’s almost to the tipping point where it’s becoming mainstream.

That’s what we’ve been waiting for all along — for organic to become the new normal.”

This unbroken rise in health-food sales over time helps McElroy to stay calm about the Whole Foods Market 365 contracted to break ground in South Lake Tahoe later this year.

“My customers are way more upset about the Whole Foods than I am,” he says. “The good news is we are in an expanding market. We have to maintain our slice of the pie, but overall the pie is always getting bigger.”

McElroy believes Grass Roots will be able to weather the competition by focusing on customer service and special orders.

“I’ve talked to other small markets that had Whole Foods move into town,” he says. “It affects their sales for a year or two.

Then they bounce back. I’m sure I’ll see our customers over there. People will shop both places.”

It is the ability to work personally with the community that sets Grass Roots apart, allowing it to maintain a loyal, local customer base that shops there throughout the year.

“Eighty-five percent of our customers are local, which is unusual for a town like South Lake,” says McElroy. “There are a lot of different versions of what natural is and theories on which health foods to eat. Different things work for different people. We cater to the full spectrum. We get to know our customers and interact with them. They trust us and they know we’re going to carry what they want. In the long run, we are here doing something that helps people and I can feel good about that.” | grassrootstahoe.com  27

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Volunteer Gardeners Truckee Demonstration Garden Truckee | Aug. 16

Volunteers are welcome for a community dig in. Build and refurbish beds, prune, weed, plant, transplant; whatever needs to be done.

No experience necessary. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. | slowfoodlaketahoe.org

Wine Tasting The Pour House | Truckee | Aug. 16, Aug. 23

Enjoy a wine tasting during every Truckee Thursday this summer. | thepourhousetruckee.com

Reno Pirate Crawl Headquarters Bar | Reno | Aug. 18

The biggest pirate bar crawl in the new world, the Reno Pirate Crawl is where every buccaneer and privateer can share a cup of grog and party the night away. 8 p.m. | (775) 800-1020, eventbrite.com

Truckee Community Farmers Market Tricounties Bank Plaza | Truckee | Aug. 19

Truckee Community Farmers’ Market Sundays until Sept. 30. The Truckee Community Farmers Market, is a California Certified Farmers Market, is committed to showcasing locally grown and artisan-quality foods.

9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free | (530) 414-9181, slowfoodlaketahoe.org

Ski Run Farmers Market Ski Run | South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 17

The market will feature more than 35 vendors. There is something for everyone. Ski Run market offers Organic farm fresh produce, local eats, a bounce house for kids, live music and locally made arts and crafts. 3-8 p.m. | skirunfarmersmarket.com

Garden Work Days Slow Food Lake Tahoe | Truckee | Aug. 20, 22

Get your hands in the soil, learn about mountain growing and make some new friends. All food grown goes to local seniors. | slowfoodlaketahoe.or

Truckee Tuesday Farmers Market EpicPromise Farm Stand

Nightly 5-6 p.m.

Village at Northstar | Truckee | Aug. 17

Northstar California and Tahoe Food Hub provide organic fresh fruits and vegetables for purchase every Friday throughout summer to employees and guests. 5-7 p.m. | chamber. truckee.com

Truckee River Regional Park Truckee | Aug. 21

Come to the Farmers’ Market each Tuesday for fresh produce, prepared foods, crepes, baked goods, fish and meat, olive oil and artisan goods. 8 a.m. | chamber.truckee.com

South Lake Tahoe Farmers Market Beach Retreat Luau Beach Retreat & Lodge at Tahoe South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 17

Luau fun in the heart of South Lake Tahoe.

Dinner and a show on the beach with a luau buffet, music and entertainment. Luau begins at 6 p.m. 6-9 p.m. | eventbrite.com

Reno Greek Festival St. Anthony’s Greek Church Reno | Aug. 17-19

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Be Greek For The Weekend at the annual Greek Festival with authentic Greek cuisine, traditional Greek dance, music, desserts and imports. $5-$12 | (775) 825-5365

American Legion Hall Parking Lot South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 21

Enjoy the weekly farmers’ market every Tuesday until Oct. 9. 8 a.m.-1 p.m. | (530) 622-1900, eldoradofarmersmarket.com

Wine Wednesdays The Loft | South Lake Tahoe | Aug. 22

Free wine tasting from different featured winery each week. Enjoy free guest speaker and/or tasting notes from the featured winery.

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WHEN WINE GOES BAD

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ight up there with starting a winebottle avalanche in front of the whole restaurant on your first day as the sommelier — yes, I did that — is the discomfort you feel when an expensive bottle is opened and something seems off. But, you are not certain. Do you send it back or grin and bear it?

Well, here is a guide that will give you confidence whatever decision you make.

First of all, remember that whatever you do, national security will not be threatened.

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Let’s look at possible wine faults. When dealing with wine of a type and age you are familiar with — let’s say a young California Chardonnay or Cabernet — that seems off, it is most likely potentially corked or oxidized. If it strongly smells/tastes like wet cardboard, sulfur or nail polish, there is no doubt it is flawed. If there is a subtler issue, you should sense for a general dullness, lack of fruit or out-of-place roasted caramel character on the nose and palate.

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These are not the only match challenges.

So when you are feeling adventurous, but dubious, the best solution is to ask your wine purveyor what to expect from the wine you are thinking of trying. Then ask yourself if the description sounds appealing to you and your cohorts. A competent sommelier or wine-shop person should have experience with wines from various regions and ages and know how the wine should present itself. 

The other primary cause of uncertainty arises when trying a wine type that you are unfamiliar with. Prime examples are wines from the same grape(s) that are from a vastly different region or of a vastly different age. Based on my 30-plus years of selling, presenting and serving wines to all types of people, I have identified some common wine situations that commonly cause confusion: California Cabernet compared to red Bordeaux, Australian Shiraz or New World Syrah compared to Northern Rhone Syrah and California Sauvignon Blanc compared to Sancerre.

These almost always create challenges to the unprepared.

Lou Phillips is a Level 3 Advanced Sommelier in Tahoe and his consulting business wineprowest. com assists in the selling, buying and managing wine collections. He may be reached at (775) 5443435 or wineguru123@gmail.com. Visit TheTahoeWeekly.com for more wine columns. Click on Wine Column under the Local Flavor tab.

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n August, we start switching over to lighter meals. Driving around in a golf cart for four hours on a hot afternoon isn’t quite the same as trying to get as many runs as you can on KT22 on a cold, snowy day. It takes more stamina to endure the heat. You want to follow that time on the green with something light and refreshing.

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either hot or cold so it can be a perfect choice for this time of year when temps can vary from the cool summer nights to hot summer days.

Days in August can still be prone to some cool breezes at night and can still get pretty chilly as soon as the sun dips down behind the mountains, especially if it has rained. Soups are still a great choice for either lunch or supper. Cucumber Dill Soup is great served either hot or cold so it can be a perfect choice for this time of year when temps can vary from the cool summer nights to hot summer days.

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Unlike most vegetable puree soups, you will notice there is no garlic and little onion. The original recipe called for no onion, but I found I liked it a little better using a small amount of sweet onion instead of regular yellow onion. Cucumbers have such a delicate flavor it is easy to overpower them. So, either before you hit the links or for dinner later, give this light soup a try and enjoy.  Smitty is a personal chef specializing in dinner parties, cooking classes and special events. Trained under Master Chef Anton Flory at Top Notch Resort in Stowe, Vt., Smitty is known for his creative use of fresh ingredients. Contact him at tmmsmitty@gmail.com or (530) 412-3598. To read archived copies of Smitty’s column, visit chefsmitty.com or TheTahoeWeekly.com. Click on Chef’s Recipe under the Local Flavor tab.

CUCUMBER DILL SOUP

From the kitchen of: Chef David “Smitty” Smith 6 cucumbers, peeled & seeded ¼ small sweet onion, diced 3 red potatoes, peeled & sliced 3 C chicken stock 3/4 stick butter 1 T fresh dill, chopped Salt & pepper

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Sauté the onion just until it starts to soften. Add the cucumber and sauté until it starts turning translucent and add the potatoes. Sauté until potatoes start to soften and add the stock, bring to a boil and turn down to a low simmer.

Simmer for 15 minutes and puree. Add the dill a little at a time so you don’t overpower the soup and season with salt and pepper to taste.

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